Matthijs Kalmijn

Matthijs Kalmijn (Ph.D., 1991, UCLA) is a demographer specializing in research on family, life course, marriage and divorce, intergenerational relations, inequality, and migration/ethnicity. Kalmijn has (co-)coordinated several large-scale social surveys in the Netherlands, including the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS), the Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (NELLS), and more recently, the multi-actor survey Parents and Children in the Netherlands (OKiN). Kalmijn is senior researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and professor at the University of Groningen. He was inaugurated to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).