Anna Salomons is Professor of Employment and Inequality at Utrecht University’s School of Economics in the Netherlands, having obtained a PhD in Economics at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Anna’s research focuses on the labor market impacts of advancing technology, and has been awarded research grants from the Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in European Knowledge Economies (SEEK) program and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Anna is an affiliated researcher at the University of Leuven and a fellow of the Research Centre for Education and the Labor Market (ROA, University of Maastricht) and has held positions as a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, London School of Economics, and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). She has provided policy advice to among others the European Commission, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the Dutch government.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2019.