Dr. Irma Mooi-Reci (Tirana, 1978) is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Programme Director of the VU-Graduate School of Social Sciences (VU-GSSS) at the VU University in Amsterdam. She completed her PhD studies on the effects of unemployment (insurance benefits) on workers' re-employment opportunities and wages in December 2008. The impact of her research has resulted in a large Dutch media attention and a significant prize “2009 VU Junior Societal Impact Award” for the dissertation with the most societal impact written over 2008–2009.

In 2010, Mooi-Reci was awarded a Faculty Fellowship to pursue additional research on unemployment and she visited the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Honorary Fellow in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship for the third time, to visit UW-Madison and continue her research on the socioeconomic implications of unemployment. Mooi-Reci has worked together with different (international) renowned researchers and has published on a variety of topics on unemployment (insurance benefits), flexible labor markets and life course (sequences) in various books and journals. Over her career Mooi-Reci has taught various courses at undergraduate, graduate and PhD level on both quantitative as well as substantive topics. As the Programme Director of the VU-GSSS she directs, organizes and coordinates the MSR and PhD-programmes.

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