Trained in psychology with a specialization in psychonomics and neuro/biopsychology. Received a PhD in psychology from the faculty of social sciences at Utrecht University. Shortly employed as researcher/programmer at Intomart GfK in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Followed by a post-doc fellowship in the Department of Sleep and Cognition at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently employed as an assistant professor at both Social, Health and Organisational Psychology and Experimental Psychology at Utrecht University.

Research interests are using different (statistical) techniques to get a more complete and full understanding of all types of behaviour. This can be on a macro level - big data - to investigate clusters in heterogeneous patient populations, but also on individual patterns of symptoms, individual differences and /or measurements over time. Technologies such as eye-tracking methods to study more covert behaviour are also of strong interest. Proficient at and affinity with programming, software and website design. Lastly, interests also include academic education and, more generally, communication of research results to the general public.

Previous work mainly focused on insomnia, the Netherlands Sleep Registry (NSR, www.slaapregister.nl) through which a large group of good and poor sleepers were assessed. This created a large database of sleep phenotypes. Currently my focus is on measuring and modifying behaviour in different complex environments in which mobile eye-tracking plays a great role.

Skills: psychometric assessment, (mobile) eye-tracking and neuroimaging techniques with a strong (web) programming and design capability (HTML, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Matlab, Python, React Native).

Mobile eye-tracking in the media:

Item 'NOS op 3' - december 2016