Imane Kostet is a FWO postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp. Her current research examines ethnic and racial disparities in the identification and diagnosis of autism. She primarily employs cultural sociological and micro-sociological approaches in her work. Before beginning her FWO postdoc, Imane was a Fulbright postdoc fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and a FWO PhD fellow at the University of Antwerp. She completed her PhD in 2022, where she explored how children negotiate ethnic and social class boundaries.