Work experience
2022 – present
Senior Researcher
Research Institute for Social Policy, Social Work, Family and Population Dynamics (ReSPOND), KU Leuven, Belgium
Project: Risks, resources and inequalities: Increasing resilience in European families (rEUsilience, PI: Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mary Daly)
2020 – 2022
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Research Institute for Social Policy, Social Work, Family and Population Dynamics (ReSPOND), KU Leuven, Belgium
Project: Family policy measurement tool: Advanced Methodologies for Understanding Inequalities in Family Policy
2016 – 2020
Postdoctoral research fellow
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Project: Families in Context (PI: Pearl Dykstra)
2016
Junior Researcher/Data Analyst
Generation and Gender Programme (GGP), Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), Netherlands
2015
Research Assistant
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), Netherlands
Teaching experience
2023 – present
PhD supervision
Maximilian Reichert, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2023 – 2024
Master’s course ‘Solidarity in European Welfare States’, KU Leuven
– Guest lecture ‘Gender solidarity’
2022 – 2024
Master’s Theses supervision, KU Leuven
2019 – 2020
Master’s course ‘Families and Inequalities’, Erasmus University Rotterdam
– coordinator
2018 – 2019
Master’s course ‘Modern Families’, Erasmus University Rotterdam
– coordinator
Education & Qualifications
2020
University Teaching Qualifications (UTQ/BKO)
Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2011 – 2017
PhD in Social Policy
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Project: ‘Genderising’ Aspects of Birth-related Leave Policies and Fertility Behaviour in Europe: Understanding Policy from and Individual’s Perspective
2013 – 2015
Visiting Researcher
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Netherlands
2008 – 2012
MA in Social Policy and Social Work
Masaryk University Brno, Czechia
2009 – 2010
MSc in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA), cum laude
KU Leuven, Belgium & LISER, Luxembourg
2004 – 2008
BA in Social and Humanitarian Work
Palacky University Olomouc, Czechia
Funding
2024
ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG)
awarded to Verena Seibel, Alzbeta Bartova, Mara Yerkes and Mehri Zamanbin
Project: Navigating Dutch Childcare: The role of social networks in migrants’ childcare knowledge, perceptions, and use
2020 – 2022
MSCA Individual Fellowship
2011 – 2014
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) +3 Scholarship
awarded by the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) Scotland
2011 – 2012
School of Social and Political Science and Social Policy Department at the University of Edinburgh Research Grant
2009 – 2010
Scholarship by LISER (formerly CEPS/INSTEAD)
to pursue International Master’s degree in Social Policy Analysis at KU Leuven (for the academic year 2009/2010)
Other Activities
2024 – present
Science Communication Coordinator
COST Action CA21150: Parental Leave Policies & Social Sustainability
2024 – present
Member of the Community, Work & Family International Editorial Board
2021 – 2022
Member of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) Belgium Working Group
Membership
European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)
Reviewer
Alžběta Bártová 