I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Antwerp, with affiliations at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Bath. Previously, I also worked at the London School of Economics (LSE), Ortec Finance and the CPB – Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. I am a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. I serve as Secretary of the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE). I am a Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of the Applied Economics Conference (AEC), held biannually in Belgrade. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics and Econometrics from VU Amsterdam.