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Herman van de Werfhorst is Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and programme leader of the Research Programme "Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation" of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR-i3).  He furthermore leads the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS, www.amcis.eu) which is a collaborative research centre of the University of Amsterdam and Free University Amsterdam, and is sponsored by a ResearchFocal Point of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of UvA.

He obtained his PhD at the University of Nijmegen in 2001. From 2000-2002 he was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Since 2002 he has been teaching Sociology at the department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.

Herman is actively involved in several research projects. The four 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, Sander Steijn and Hafid Ballafkih, and postdoctoral researcher Ruya Koçer.  (€ 600.000)

- Herman is the Principal Investigator of a Research Programme Grant by the Netherlands' Organisation for Scientific Research, Programme Council for Education Research (NWO-PROO), entitled 'Educational systems and four central functions of education'. Co-investigators are Jaap Dronkers, Sjoerd Karsten, and Rolf van der Velden.  (€ 921.000). 

- EU FP7 project GINI (Growing Inequalities' Impacts), on the social, cultural and political impacts of (changing) inequalities in Europe. (€ 2.7 mio)

- From 2005-2010 Herman has been 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). The network still exists after initial EU Funding of € 4.1 mio.

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

Links:

EQUALSOC network

Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS)

EU-FP7: www.GINI-research.org

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Full CV

NWO-PROO "Educational systems and four central functions ofeducation"