Lex Thijssen

Lex Thijssen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds affiliations with the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Prior roles include postdoctoral research at Radboud University and research positions at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP).

Education: PhD in Sociology (2020) from Utrecht University and ICS (Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology).

Research Focus: Intersectional discrimination, social exclusion/inclusion processes, and social inequality. Methodological expertise includes field experiments, longitudinal analysis, and meta-analyses. Recent work investigates everyday discrimination in public spaces (e.g., streets, transport) using surveys, diaries, and experiments.

Awards: 2024 NWO Veni Grant for studying everyday discrimination consequences.

Grants & Projects: Current project explores individual/contextual factors driving discrimination in semi-public spaces. Past work emphasized racial-ethnic labor market disparities.

Key Collaborations: Multi-country field experiments, with focus on Western societies and comparative analyses.