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Teaching experience

current:

• • Research Master theses: Supervisor

  • Minor Research Project (Research Master): Supervisor 

  • Innovations in Communication (Master Communication Science): Lecturer

  • Communication & Influence (Research Master BSI): Lecturer

  • Media and Influence (B2 Communication Science): Lecturer

  • Media & Society (B1 Communication Science): Lecturer

  • Current Theories of Persuasion and Resistance (Master Communication Science): Coordinator & lecturer

past:

• • Research Project OP2 (B2 psychology): Coordinator & lecturer

  • Behaviour 3: Cognition, Attitude, and Motivation (B3 psychology): Coordinator & lecturer

  • Resistance against influence (Master Communication Science): Coordinator & lecturer

  • Stress & Health (Research Master BSI): Lecturer

  • The Psychology of Eating (B2 psychology): Co-coordinator & lecturer

  • SWITCH (Master Behavioural Change psychology): Lecturer

  • Comunication and Influence (B2 Communication Science): Coordinator

  • Professionalisation (B2 Communication Science): Individual coach & group supervisor

  • Research Project OP3 (B3 psychology): Supervisor

  • Bachelor theses psychology and communication science (B3): Supervisor

  • Traject (Master Behavioural Change psychology): Supervisor

  • Master Behavioural Change theses: Supervisor

  • Master Clinical Psychology: Supervisor

  • Master Communication Science: Supervisor

Ad-hoc reviewer journals & research grants

• Acta Psychologica

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine

• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

• BodyImage

• Brain Imaging and Behavior

• British Journal of Psychology

• Cognition

• Cognition & Emotion

• Cortex

• Developmental Psychology

• Developmental Science

• Dutch Yearbook in Social Psychology

• Experimental Brain Research

• Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology

• Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition

• Information, Communication, & Society

• Interaction Studies

• International Review of Social Psychology

• Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

• Journal of Behavioral Addictions

• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

• Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

• Journal of Social Psychology

• National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFI)

• Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics

• PLoS ONE

• Psychological Reports

• Psychological Research

• Scientific Reports

• Social Cognition

• Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

• Social Neuroscience

• Social Psychology

• Social Psychological and Personality Science

• Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

• 24h of Communication Science

• Zeitschrift für Psychologie

In addition, in 2018 I was member of the expert panel "Social, Political, and Communication Sciences" of the Science Foundation Vlaanderen (FWO), review editor of Frontiers in Psychology (2016 - 2019), and I was associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology (2019 - 2020).

Prizes & grants

2023 Research grant from NWO to conduct a research project on developing an test a VR-intervention to foster minimalistic consumption (main applicant; 50.000€; ongoing).

2022 Research grant from ZonMW to conduct a research project on developing a chatbot to support student well-being (co-applicant; ±780.000€; ongoing).

2021 Due to very good evaluations during the VIDI 2020 procedure, I have qualified for a NWO Aspasia grant awarded to female scientists to support their future career (120.000€; nomination only). Money will be used to start a project fostering Diversity & Inclusion in Higher Education.

2021 Co-applicant for a valorisation grant from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) to develop a serious game to increase self-efficacy related to ecological sustainable behaviour (10.000€, finished)

2020 Co-applicant for a research grant from the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany (UKE) to conduct a research project on smoking cessation in public (ca. 10.000€, finished)

2019 Teaching compensation grant from the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University to be able to write a NWO VIDI grant and a ERC Starting grant (main-applicant; ± 5.000€, finished).

2019 Co-applicant for a visiting grant from International Office Social Sciences (IOSS) to travel to Glasgow University, UK (ca. 5.500€, finished)

2019 Main applicant for a visiting grant from International Office Social Sciences (IOSS) to host Shintya Kurniawan, MSc at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, who worked on PhD proposal to promote individual behaviour change on flood & drought preparedness (3.250€, finished)

2018 Main applicant for a visiting grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to host Dr. Tommy van Steen (University Bath, UK) at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands (7.400€, not claimed)

2016 Co-applicant for a Nijmegen-Cologne Social Cognition seedcorn grant to conduct research on self-construal and its relation to creativity (2.300€)

2016 Main applicant for a EASP seedcorn grant to conduct research on self-persuasion and its relation to self-construal (2.000€), and to visit Prof. Rainer Greifeneder (University Basel) and Prof. Sabine Glock (University Wuppertal)

2015 Co-applicant for a PhD grant from the Chinese Scholarship Council to conduct research on self-persuasion and its relation to self-construal (ca. 65.000€)

2015 Main applicant for a BSI pilot grant to conduct interdisciplinary research on the effectiveness of self-persuasion in social media settings (5.100€)

2014 Main applicant for a PhD grant financed by the Jacobs Foundation to conduct research on the development of anthropomorphism in infants (ca. 280.000€)

2014 Co-applicant for two ‘What‘s up neighbours‘ research grants from Radboud University to conduct interdisciplinary research in social psychology, communication science, and linguistics (6000€)

2008 Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) best poster award (3rd price; 100€)

2007 Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) best poster award (1st price; 300€)