Senior lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Amsterdam's Department of History and European Studies. He was a senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2019-2020) and recently held visiting positions in Göttingen and Leuven. He authored Windvanen (Prometheus, 2009) and Europe Against Revolution (OUP, 2023). He also edited volumes on Antiliberal Internationalism (Routledge, forthcoming), Atlantic Monarchisms (2 vols., Bloomsbury, 2024), Cosmopolitan Conservatisms (Brill, 2021), The Politics of Moderation (Palgrave, 2019), and Eurocentrism in European History and Memory (AUP, 2019).