Helga de Valk is director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and professor of Migration and the life course at the University of Groningen. She is part of the Migration and migrants group at NIDI and leads a research group around her ERC project MYMOVE. Her research focuses on migration and integration issues, the transition to adulthood of immigrant youth, union and family formation, the second generation, segregation, and European mobility. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2010 FamiLife) and acquired an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018 MYMOVE). Furthermore she led and was part of a range of national and international projects funded amongst others by Horizon 2020 and Norface. She was editor in chief of the European Journal of Population (EJP; 2014-2018) and winner of the 2016 European Demography Award. She is currently honorary president of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and vice chair of the Dutch State Committee (Staatscommissie) on Demographic Developments 2050.
Affiliations
- Professor of Migration and the Life course at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Population Research Center, University of Groningen
- Honorary president of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)
Ancillary positions (nevenfuncties)
- Vice chair of the Dutch State Committee on Demographic Developments 2050 (Staatscommissie Demografische ontwikkelingen 2050)
- Member of the Adviesraad Migratie (ACVZ) (temporarily suspended in connection with the Staatscommissie 2050)
- Member of the ODEISSEI supervisory board, EUR, Rotterdam
- Chair of the advisory board of SOCIUM , University of Bremen
- Member of the Kuratorium des Bundesinstituts fuer Bevoelkerungswissenschaften in Wiesbaden
- Member of the Beirat des Berliner Demografie Forums in Berlin
- Member of the Advisory board ESRC Funded Research Center “Connecting generations”
- Advisor of Population Europe in Berlin (cooperation network of demographic institutes in Europe)
- Advisory board member of the Mapineq project (funded under Horizon Europe) coordinator Turku university
- Advisory board member of the Vienna Institute for Demography
Expertise
International migration, demographic characteristics and behaviour of migrant populations, family formation, intergenerational relationships
