Main Focus
- Fear of crime and related behavioral adaptations
- Sexual violence and harassment
- Virtual reality as a research tool
- Quantitative and mixed methods
- Credibility assessment of witness statements
- Science skepticism and communication
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Appointments
- 2025–present: Doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany
Professional Experience
- 2024–2025: Research and teaching assistant at the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2024: Research assistant at the Athena Institute (Science Communication), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2023–2024: Research assistant at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2023: Research intern at the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2021: Clinical and research intern at a forensic psychiatry of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Germany
- 2019–2021: Teaching assistant at the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Education
- 2022–2024: M.Sc. Psychology (Research), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2023–2024: Major in Science Communication, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2018–2022: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, including a stay abroad at National University of Singapore, Singapore