Prof Dr Maarten Vink (M.P.)
From 1 September 2020: Maarten Vink is on special leave from Maastricht University while he holds the Chair in Citizenship Studies at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence.
Maarten Vink is Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He leads the research project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)” funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016-2021). He is one of the founders and was previously a Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE).
Vink is Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a web platform that is part of the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. GLOBALCIT provides user-friendly open access to a major worldwide collection of data and analyses on citizenship laws and access to franchise for academic researchers and policy communities.
Expertises
Political science; political sociology; Comparative methods; Migration; Citizenship; Immigrant integration; Europeanization.
Career history
Maarten Vink obtained his PhD in Political Science at Leiden University in 2003 and has been at Maastricht University since 2004. He was previously a Willy Brandt Guest Professor at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University (2017-2018) and a Part-Time Professor (2011-2016) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Vink was a FCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal (2007-2010) and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (2003-2004) and also held Visiting Scholarships at the Center for European Studies, New York University (2004) and at the Department of Philosophy and Culture at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (2005).