Maarten Vink

Dr. Maarten Vink is a Consultant at European University Institute.
He is also a Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Dr. Vink is Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) and is also a ROA Fellow at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA).
He currently leads the research project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)” funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016-2021).
Dr. 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.
Dr. Vink 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.
He 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).
He obtained his PhD in Political Science at Leiden University in 2003 and has been at Maastricht University since 2004.