About

I’m a social scientist and a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Social Policy, Social Work, Family and Population Dynamics (ReSPOND) at KU Leuven, Belgium. My research interests lie at the crossroads between social policy, family sociology and social demography. I have expertise in comparative parenting leave policies and the gender division of paid and unpaid work. I’m also interested in the accessibility of policies for diverse social groups and people’s knowledge of policies and their entitlements.  

I developed the Open Family Policy Program (OFPP), a microsimulation model to estimate parenting leave eligibility and entitlements in the EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) datasets.

I’m currently working on rEUsilience, an international research project that analyses the capacity of European families to deal with various risks in the context of changing labour markets and welfare states, and the inequalities resulting from the differential capacities of families to respond to adverse circumstances. I’m also the science communication coordinator at the COST Action Project CA21150: Sustainability@Leave.