Richard Zijdeman

Richard Zijdeman currently serves as a Guest Researcher at User-Centric Data Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, beginning in October 2024. Zijdeman holds multiple positions at IISG since March 2020, including Head of Department Data & Augmentation and Chief Innovation Officer. Additionally, Zijdeman is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Stirling in the research group 'Social Surveys and Social Statistics' since December 2010. Zijdeman has previously worked as Chief Data Officer and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, and as Research Programme Director at the Posthumus Institute. Zijdeman has contributed as an invited lecturer and teaching assistant at various institutions, specializing in multilevel modeling and historical occupational classification. Zijdeman obtained a PhD in sociology of inequality from Utrecht University and holds a Master of Science in Sociology from the same institution.