Herman van de Werfhorst is Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Research Cluster Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR-i3).  

He obtained his PhD at the University of Nijmegen in 2001. From 2000-2002 he was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University ofOxford. Since 2002 he has been teaching Sociology at the department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. In addition to his affiliation to the ASSR, he is also fellow of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS).

Herman is actively involved in several research projects. The three largest projects are the following.

- He coordinates a research team that studies the influence of institutions on the way education is used for selection and allocation processes in labour markets, partly subsidized by a personal VIDI grant from the Netherlands' Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). This involves PhD students Thijs Bol, Valentina DiStasio and Hafid Ballafkih, and postdoctoral researcher Ruya Koçer.  

- From 2005-2010 Herman is the deputy coordinator of a large international Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission, called EQUALSOC (Economic Change, Quality of Life, and Social Cohesion). This network brings together thirteen first-rate research institutes, to study aspects of social cohesion with regard to the labour market, income differentiation, education, family and social networks, cultural inequalities, social trust, and associability.

- By the end of 2009 a new EU funded research team will start on the social, cultural and political impacts of (changing) inequalities in Europe, called GINI (Growing Inequalities' Impacts). 

Herman's research interests include the sociology of education, social stratification and mobility, labour market sociology, and quantitiative methodology & statistics. 

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EQUALSOC network
AIAS
ASSR
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