Pearl Dykstra

Pearl A. Dykstra is a Dutch social scientist with a background in sociology, psychology, gerontology and demography. She is a specialist on intergenerational solidarity, aging societies, family change, aging and the life course, and loneliness.

She holds the position of Professor of Empirical Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She was the Deputy Chair (2016-2020) of the High Level Group of scientists advising the Cabinet of European Commissioners. She is a member of the Board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Division of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. She is also an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, being chosen in 2004. She serves as Scientific Director of ODISSEI, the Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economics Innovations. Provided by Wikipedia