About
Throughout my academic career, I have been fascinated by the individual and how they develop and change with time. My education taught me to bring an interdisciplinary approach to everything I study, and this has honed my ability to think critically and view a problem from various angles before tackling it.
Curriculum Vitae
PhD candidate
Nov 2016 - current
Nov 2016 - current
Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation | University Medical Center Groningen | University of Groningen | Groningen, NL
Working title: Mapping individual change trajectories during psychological treatment: how can we best anticipate improvements in depressive symptoms over time?
Topic: idiographic change in depression, particularly mood and symptom improvement during treatment captured as intensive longitudinal data. My PhD focuses on understanding psychopathology from a complex dynamical systems conceptualization, and one of the core questions I hope to answer, is whether early warning signals can be useful in detecting large symptom improvements in patients receiving treatment for depression.
Promotors: Prof. dr. M. Wichers & Prof. dr. A. J. Oldehinkel
Co-promotors: Dr. Evelien Snippe & Dr. L. F. Bringmann
Research Master Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Sep 2013 - Aug 2015
Sep 2013 - Aug 2015
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience | Maastricht University | Maastricht, NL
Specialization in Psychopathology
Dissertation title: Daily life social engagement and theory of mind in schizophrenia.
Examination of social cognition and real life social functioning in psychosis patients and healthy controls.
Supervised by Dr. A.-K. Fett.
Research Internship
Nov 2014 - July 2015
Nov 2014 - July 2015
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience | King's College London | London, UK
Topic: investigation of social dysfunction and trust in schizophrenia using fMRI and experience sampling methodology.
Supervised by Dr. A.-K. Fett and Prof. S. Shergill.
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences
Sep 2010 - Aug 2013
Sep 2010 - Aug 2013
University College Utrecht | Utrecht University | Utrecht, NL
Major in Psychology and a Minor in Philosophy and a Minor in Methods & Statistics
Major in Psychology and a Minor in Philosophy and a Minor in Methods & Statistics
Dissertation title: Searching for Selfhood: the evolutionary road of the human mind.
Multidisciplinary literature research on consciousness and self-awareness in light of human brain evolution.
Supervised by Dr. F. A. C. Wiegant.
Exchange semester
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore, SG
Courses taken at NTU counted towards the UCU curriculum.
Skills and competences
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Languages
I speak Dutch and English fluently, and I have a reasonable reading comprehension of German, French and Spanish.
I am also fluent in nonsense and sarcasm.
Programming
I write most of my scripts in R, but I have worked with Python, STATA, SPSS, MPlus, and Matlab as well.
Transferable skills
Creative problem-solving, detail-oriented, skilled at clarifying what is needed to make a decision.
Excellent written and spoken communication.
A flexible, empathetic team mate, who listens, and is willing and able to lead when needed.
Able to plan and keep organised, but also able to pivot priorities under time pressure.
Overall, a curious, motivated student of everything, with a sense of humour.