Pearl Dykstra#
Photo: Willem Sluyterman van Loo
| Membership Number: | 4366 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.egs3h.eur.nl/people/pearl-dykstra |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - November 2020 Member High Level Group of scientists advising the cabinet of European Commissioners
- 2009 - present Full professor empirical sociology Erasmus University Rotterdam
- 2011 - 2016 Vice President Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2002 - 2009 Chair kinship demography Utrecht University
- 1990 - 2009 Senior researcher Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute The Hague
- 1985 - 1990 Research associate Department of Social Research Methods Free University Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Life course
- Families
- Intergenerational relations
- Loneliness
- Ageing societies
- Divorce
- Marriage
- Childlessness
- Demographic changes
- Surveys
Honours and Awards
- 1979 ‘Kandidaats’, cum laude, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1980 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 1981 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 1985 ‘Doctoraal’, cum laude, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 2002 - 2003 Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Studies (NIAS)
- 2004 Elected Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2005 Elected Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW)
- 2006 Elected Member of the Dutch Social Sciences Council (SWR)
- 2009 Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Studies (NIAS)
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
- 2011 Elected as one of the ‘top scientists’ of the Erasmus University Rotterdam
- 2013 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2015 Appointed to High Level Group of scientists advising the Cabinet of European Commissioners
