Education

• BA, cum laude, Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen
• MA, cum laude, Developmental psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Ph.D. ("Psychodiagnostics: classification and hypothesis-generation"), Radboud University Nijmegen

Position and honors 

Positions 

• 1988-1994: PhD student/junior researcher at the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), Radboud University Nijmegen

  Research topic: Psychodiagnostic decision making 

• 1994-1997: Researcher at the Trimbos Institute, Utrecht

  Research topic: epidemiology of mental health problems; children’s division of the regional institutes for ambulatory mental health care 

• Since 1997: Postdoc and assistant professor/senior lecturer at the Department of Clinical Child & Family Studies, Department of Education and Pedagogy, Utrecht University

  Research topic: peer relations (social status, aggression and prosociality, bullying and victimization, friendship) 

Honors/awards 

• Award for promising female researchers at Utrecht University, resulting in a tenured appointment (‘Premie voor het aantrekken en behoud van vrouwelijk talent’)