About me

I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Essex, Department of Sociology and Criminology. My research applies state-of-art social network methods to better understand social inequalities. Much of this work focuses on the reproduction of ethnic, gender, and socio-economic inequalities in the education system through students’ social ties and interactions. I am also interested in social networks, education, and social inequalities more broadly. I have recently received the Freeman award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis for significant contributions to the study of social structure.

Currently I am leading an ERC Starting Grant STERN (Applied Stereotypes, Social Networks, and Self-fulfilling Prophecies: How Stereotypes Reinforce Social Inequalities) and a Co-Investigator of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC). I have recently completed a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research.

Before Essex, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Social Networks Lab at ETH Zürich between 2015 and 2021. From 2017, I was also co-leading the project “Who Succeeds and Who Fails? A Multilevel Social Network Analysis Approach to Immigrants’ Psychological and Sociocultural Adaption in Europe” (Computational Social Science Grant by the Volkswagen foundation). Between 2015 and 2017, I was the project manager for the Swiss StudentLife Study administered at ETH. I received my PhD from the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford in 2016. My supervisors were Tom Snijders and Janne Jonsson.

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