CURRICULUM VITAE
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Academic Positions
Current position
2021 - Associate Professor (tenured)
Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Previous positions
2018 - 2021 Assistant Professor
Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2016 - 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Leah Somerville
Education
2011 - 2015 PhD
Department of Developmental Psychology
Leiden University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone
Research Grants
Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) Science Communication (2022), NWO, PI, €150k
Gravitation (Zwaartekracht), NWO (2022), Consortium member, €22.1M
Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) Science Communication (2020), PI, €50k
Ammodo Science Award for Groundbreaking Research (2020), co-PI, €1.2M
NWO VENI (2017), PI, €250k
NWO Rubicon (2016), PI, €135k
Awards
My work has been awarded with several prizes and awards including the J.C. Ruigrok Award 2019, awarded by the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities, and the Young Talent Prize 2018 from the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting. I won two best abstract awards. In 2015 I won the best PhD article award for the Department of Psychology at Leiden University. My blog 'Facebook depression' was the best read blog on www.leidenpsychologyblog.nl in 2013 and currently has over 105.000 hits.
Leadership
2024 - Advisory board Dutch Science Foundation, Domain Social Sciences & Humanities
2023 - Board member Institute for Brain and Behaviour Amsterdam (iBBA)
2023 - Director at large FLUX Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
2022 - Board member Dutch Organisation for Developmental Psychology, (VNOP)
2021 - Board member Impact Committee, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, VU
Open Science
I am a proponent of Open Science. Whenever possible I share data, analysis scripts, tasks and presentations. Furthermore, I am an active participant in the discussion about policy and the transition towards Open Science. I published an opinion piece in De Volkskrant and I participate in discussions with different stakeholders such as Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), politicians, publishers and scientists.
Academic Positions
Current position
2021 - Associate Professor (tenured)
Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Previous positions
2018 - 2021 Assistant Professor
Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2016 - 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Leah Somerville
Education
2011 - 2015 PhD
Department of Developmental Psychology
Leiden University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone
Research Grants
Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) Science Communication (2022), NWO, PI, €150k
Gravitation (Zwaartekracht), NWO (2022), Consortium member, €22.1M
Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) Science Communication (2020), PI, €50k
Ammodo Science Award for Groundbreaking Research (2020), co-PI, €1.2M
NWO VENI (2017), PI, €250k
NWO Rubicon (2016), PI, €135k
Awards
My work has been awarded with several prizes and awards including the J.C. Ruigrok Award 2019, awarded by the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities, and the Young Talent Prize 2018 from the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting. I won two best abstract awards. In 2015 I won the best PhD article award for the Department of Psychology at Leiden University. My blog 'Facebook depression' was the best read blog on www.leidenpsychologyblog.nl in 2013 and currently has over 105.000 hits.
Leadership
2024 - Advisory board Dutch Science Foundation, Domain Social Sciences & Humanities
2023 - Board member Institute for Brain and Behaviour Amsterdam (iBBA)
2023 - Director at large FLUX Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
2022 - Board member Dutch Organisation for Developmental Psychology, (VNOP)
2021 - Board member Impact Committee, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, VU
Open Science
I am a proponent of Open Science. Whenever possible I share data, analysis scripts, tasks and presentations. Furthermore, I am an active participant in the discussion about policy and the transition towards Open Science. I published an opinion piece in De Volkskrant and I participate in discussions with different stakeholders such as Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), politicians, publishers and scientists.
