Daniël van Middelkoop has worked at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as a researcher since 2011 and has served as tenure-track professor of Team Professionalisation in changing organisations since 2018. The Team Professionalisation research group specialises in longitudinal action research on and in teams and works from the conviction that professionals are a determining factor in the quality of complex work in organisations. He aims in his research group to contribute to providing support to individual professionals and professional teams in both the public and private sectors.

Daniel also conducts research into study success in higher education. His research particularly examines the role of teachers and other stakeholders in defining and practising study success in educational practice. He published a study Study success and diversity and what higher education teachers have to do with it together with Martha Meerman in 2013. In 2018, he co‑edited the book Study success from efficiency to social relevance written together with Folke Glastra.

He has since 2013 been a lecturer in the Business Administration Bachelor programme. In his role as tenure-track professor, he works closely with the HRM and Business Administration Bachelor programmes of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Daniël received his PhD from Utrecht University in 2008 for a study of power relations within figurations of incumbents and outsiders. He then worked for several years as a developer of educational materials and projects.