2020- current: Associate Professor; 2015 - 2020: Assistant Professor; 

Utrecht University

Research interests:

• Students' motivation for school
• Equal opportunities and social and ethnic diversity in schools
• Teaching high ability students

Research projects:

• Mind the Gap (NWO vidi project)
• KLIK Equitable teaching in Class (NRO)
• Building Democratic Citizenship Through the Invisible Hand of the Teacher (NRO)
• Monitor study Giftedness and high ability in inclusive educational settings (NRO)
• Intervention study: Ehancing motivation for school of students with different socio-ethnic backgrounds (NRO)
• POINT - Collaboration between schools and reseachers on teaching high ability students (NRO)
• Developmental trajectories of high-ability students (NRO)

 Teaching:

• Coordinator course International Perspectives on Education
• Coordinator master thesis
• Co-coordinator bachelor thesis

2013 - 2015: Post-doc

University of Amsterdam

Research projects:

• Research on motivation of high ability students
• Review study on motivating students with diverse backgrounds

2009 - 2013: PhD candidate

University of Amsterdam

Dissertation: Motivational developments in primary school: Group-specific differences in various learning contexts. (Co)promotores: Prof. dr. M. Volman, dr. T. Peetsma en dr. I. van der Veen.

2006 - 2009: Research Master Behavioural Science (cum laude)

Radboud University Nijmegen