Elias Kruithof

Elias Kruithof holds a PhD in sociology (Brussels), and master’s degrees in law (Leuven), sociology (Brussels), social science education (Brussels), and statistics & data science (Leuven). He also studied for one semester at Venice International University and participated in a summer program at Tsinghua University (Beijing). He has been a visiting scholar at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED) in Paris. In October 2026, he earned his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, entitled Intergenerational Social Mobility in Context: Migration and the Global Expansion of Education.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded MARIS project. His research focuses on intergenerational social mobility, social class stratification, and the emancipation of children of immigrants, with particular attention to how migration and the global expansion of education shape opportunities and social mobility. His published work further addresses social science education, the sociology of education, and open science.

Research projects:

Social and ethnic inequalities in intergenerational social mobility - the role of the educational macro context (FWOTM1136)

Research keywords: Intergenerational social mobility; ethnic differences; Cross-national differences