Bram Lancee obtained his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2010). His dissertation conceptualizes bonding and bridging social capital and analyzes its impact on the labour market performance of immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany (see PhD).

His academic interests include social capital, ethnic minorities and the labour market, inequality and social participation, attitudes towards immigration and ethnic diversity in neighbourhoods. He published in International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Social Science & Medicine.

Bram Lancee is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam and at the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS).  Before starting his dissertation research, he was teaching at the department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam (2002-2006), and at the School of Journalism in Utrecht (2006). He graduated in Policy, Communication and Organization (MA) at the Free University Amsterdam (1996-2000) and in Human Geography and International Development Studies (MSc) at the University of Amsterdam (2002-2005).