Henrico van Roekel is an Assistant Professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG), specializing in leadership, behavioral experiments, and well-being at work. Committed to Open Science, his research appears in journals like Public Management Review, Applied Psychology, and Leadership, and has been featured in media outlets such as Behavioral Scientist, NRC, and BNR Nieuwsradio. A board member of the Dutch Association for Public Administration, he promotes accessible public administration research. In 2022, he was a visiting scholar at The People Lab, Harvard University. Henrico earned his PhD cum laude in 2024.

Highlighted research for each core theme:

• Leadership: Examining employee willingness to execute shared leadership: The role of leadership behaviour, gender, age, and context
• Behavioral experiments: Nudges can be both autonomy-preserving and effective: evidence from a survey and quasi-field experiment
• Well-being at work: What is work engagement? A text mining approach using employees' self-narratives

Guest lecture?

Henrico regularly gives guest lectures on the following topics:

• Behavioral science in practice: challenges and solutions in the use of behavioral interventions
• Leadership and well-being: the possibilities of shared leadership
• To measure is to know? The basics and thorny topics of quantitative research and statistics

More information? Email h.vanroekel@uu.nl.