CURRICULUM VITAE MATTHIJS KALMIJN

December 5, 2025 

Personal details

• Born Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 13-8-1962
• Dutch nationality
• Orcid: 0000-0001-5217-1897
• Web of Science ResearcherID: F-2943-2013

Contact information

• Email: kalmijn@nidi.nl
• Address: Lange Houtstraat 19, 2511 CV The Hague, Netherlands
• Phone: +316 - 55409514
• Homepage: matthijskalmijn.nl

Education

• PhD 1991, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
• Bachelor/Master 1986 (cum laude), Sociology, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Research areas

• Demography
• Family and life course sociology
• Social stratification
• Migration and ethnicity

Employment

2020 –               Full professor, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

2020 –               Full professor, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Netherlands

2012 – 2020     Full professor, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

2001 – 2012     Full professor, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, Netherlands

1993 – 2001     Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Netherlands

1991 – 1993     Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, USA

                            Affiliate researcher, Office of Population Research, Princeton University

Institutional responsibilities (selection)

2023 –               Director of the theme group Families and Generations, NIDI, the Hague

2020 – 2023     Director of the theme group Migrants and Migration, NIDI, the Hague

2015 – 2018     Member of the NVAO committee for the evaluation of Research Masters in the

                            Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Netherlands

                            (The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders)

2012 – 2018     Board member, Amsterdam Center for Inequality Studies (AMCIS), University of Amsterdam

2012 – 2016     Director of the research program Institutions, Inequalities, and Life Courses (IIL),

                            University of Amsterdam (12 staff, 14 PhD’s)

2007 – 2012     Chair of the Department of Sociology, Tilburg University

2003 – 2012     Director of the research program Social and Cultural Dynamics, Tilburg University

2005 – 2006     Chairman of NWO Themavoorbereidingscommissie ‘Levensloop’ and Member of

                            NWO Themaverkenningscommissie ‘Levensloop’.

Recognitions (selection)

• Inaugurated to the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in September 2017.
• Inaugurated to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in April 2007.
• Inaugurated to the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) in May 2010.
• Best Dutch journal article 2014-2015, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Sociologie (NSV), June 2016.
• IPUMS Research Award for best article using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2010.

Citations

• H-index in Web of Science 52.
• H-index in Google Scholar 85.
• In the Elsevier data on the 2% most cited scientists in the world (Ioannidis, 2024), I was ranked in the top 4% of the demographers in the list (7^th place) and the top 5% of the sociologists (43^rd place)

Teaching

2017 – 2020     Bachelor course “Life courses, family, and health”, University of Amsterdam, Department of Sociology

2016 – 2020     Research master course “Comparative perspectives in the social sciences”,

                            Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam

2015 – 2018     Member and vice-chair of the Board of Examinations, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences,

                            University of Amsterdam

2012 – 2017     Bachelor course “Education, stratification and life courses”, University of Amsterdam,

                            Department of Sociology

2012 – 2014     Bachelor course “Social networks and cohesion”, University of Amsterdam, Department of Sociology

Grants

• Is the audience of classical music concerts fading out? Demographic perspectives (National Research Council), 2025. k€ 399 [PI.]
• A longitudinal perspective on migration: Building a migrant survey-register multiactor panel (KNAW). 2024. K€ 250. [PI.]
• Stepfamilies then and now: Building a database on children’s experiences of family complexity in the 20th century (KNAW). 2021. K€ 250. [PI.]
• A Place to Grow Old? The Risks and Rewards of Retirement Migration”. k€ 621. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 2019. [PI, together with Henkens.]
• Critical Life Events and the Dynamics of Inequality: Risk, Vulnerability, and Cumulative Disadvantage (CRITEVENTS). k€ 1500. NORFACE. 2017. [Co-applicant.]
• Intergenerational Reproduction and Solidarity in an Era of Family Complexity. k€ 2500. ERC Advanced Grant (EC). 2015. [PI]
• Panel Study of Social Dynamics in the Netherlands. k€ 730. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 2006. [PI, together with De Graaf, Kraaykamp, Monden]
• An Advanced Multi-Disciplinary Facility for Measurement and Experimentation in the Social Sciences (MESS/LISS). k€ 1010. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 2005. [Co-applicant.]
• The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study. k€ 4100. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 1999. [PI, together with Dykstra, Knijn, Komter, Liefbroer, Mulder]
• Divorce in the Netherlands. k€ 200. Board of Directors, Utrecht University. 1996. [PI.]
• Remarriage in Comparative Perspective. k€ 208. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 2011. [PI]
• Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Four European Countries. k€ 174 (part awarded to my own university). NORFACE. 2010. [PI, together with Kalter, Heath, Jonsson, Kogan, Van Tubergen]
• The Influence of Institutions on the Economic Consequences of Divorce for Women. k€ 169. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 2005. [PI]
• A Panel Study on Life Course Trajectories and Well-being among Young Adults. k€ 167. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 2003. [co-applicant]
• Causes and Consequences of Divorce in the Netherlands. k€ 601. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (National Research Council). 1997. [PI.]

Survey data collection (see homepage for codebooks and DANS-KNAW for data deposits)

• Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (3rd wave) (NELLS 2022).
• Survey of Dutch Retirement Migrants Abroad (DRM 2021).
• Ouders en Kinderen in Nederland (OKiN 2017 and 2020).
• Unions in Context (UNICON 2019).
• Panel Study of Social Integration in the Netherlands (PSIN 1995-2010).
• Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Four European Countries (CILS4EU).
• Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (NELLS 2009-2014).
• Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS 2003-2004 and 2006-2007).
• Scheiding in Nederland (SIN 1998).
• Households in the Netherlands (HIN 1995).
• Households in the Netherlands (HIN 1994).

Reviewing and advisory activities (selection)

2025 –             Editorial Board, Journal of Marriage and Family

2023 –             Editorial Board, Advances in Life Course Research

2022 –             Advisory Board, KINMATRIX (ERC project Thomas Leopold)

2020 –             Editorial Board, European Sociological Review

2020 – 2022   Review panel member, Dutch Research Council (NWO)

2022 – 2023   Review panel member, European Research Council, Brussels

2019 –             Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Fertility and Health, Oslo, Norway

2019 –             Editorial Board, Advances in Life Course Research

2017 – 2021   Review panel member, Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland (selected years)

2008 – 2022   Scientific Advisory Board, The German Family Panel (PAIRFAM), Mannheim/München, Germany

2007 – 2018   Scientific Advisory Board, Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences (LISS),

                          Tilburg, Netherlands

Memberships

2010 –             Member, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Demografie (NVD)

2010 –             Member, European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)

2002 –             Founding member, European Divorce Network (EUDIV) with Jaap Dronkers & Michael Wagner.

International experience

2018                Visiting scholar, California Center for Population Research, UCLA, Los Angeles

2012                Visiting scholar, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Research unit Migration,

                         Integration, and Transnationalization, Berlin, Germany

2011                Visiting scholar, Stanford University, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality,

                         Palo Alto, USA

2009                Emile Verhaeren Leerstoel Professorship, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

1991 – 1993  Affiliate of the Office of Population Research, Princeton, USA.

Invited presentations (recent)

• Suesmilch lecture, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock (April 2024)
• Population and Health Research Group, University of St Andrews, Scotland (May 2023).
• Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (March 2019).
• Department of Sociology, University of Zürich, Switzerland (March 2018).
• Department of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles (July 2018).
• Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University (December 2015).
• International Conference of Panel Data Users, University of Lausanne, Géopolis (June 2015).
• Conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Tilburg University, Netherlands (October 2013) (keynote).
• Department of Sociology, Oxford University, Britain (June 2013).
• Research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (June 2012).
• Paris Seminar in Economic Demography of INED and the Paris School of Economics, Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED), France (April 2012).