Prof. dr. Frank van Tubergen is Head of the Department of ‘Migration & Migrants’ at NIDI-KNAW / University of Groningen and Professor of ‘Migration & Intergroup Relations’ at the Department of Sociology / Utrecht University. He coordinated the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Four European Countries (CILS4EU).
Van Tubergen’s research has been published in journals such as American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Demography. He is the author of “Introduction to Sociology” (Routledge, 2020).
His research has been supported by major competitive grants from the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant), the Dutch Research Council (including Veni, Vidi and Gravitation grants), the European Commission, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His papers won awards from the German Sociological Association, the Dutch Sociological Association, IPUMS, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Ammodo-KNAW award), and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
Van Tubergen is an elected fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.