employment
2023 – present: senior (staff) scientist behavioural change, Prevention Hub, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, NL
2020 – present: principal behavioural scientist, OnePlanet Research Center
2020 – 2021: member of the behavioural scientific advisory board for the Dutch digital contact tracing apps CoronaMelder and CoronaCheck, ministry of health, wellbeing and sports
2011 – 2020 (april): (senior) researcher and lecturer in design and behaviour change, utrecht university of applied sciences
2018 (feb – aug): lecturer, research master behaviour change, behavioural science institute, radboud university nijmegen
2011 – 2013: lecturer in cognitive psychology for designers, utrecht school of the arts.
2007 – 2013: independent graphic designer
2007 – 2011: workshops on design and activism, support in action campaign design
2001 – 2007: freelance graphic designer

education
2024: Postgraduate course Fundamentals of Implementation Science, University of Washington
2013 – 2019: PhD, social sciences, VU University Amsterdam
2002 – 2007: graphic design at the Arnhem college of Arts. Graduated (BDes) in June 2007
1992 – 1994: Communication Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen
1991 – 1992 and 1994 – 1997: Social Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, graduated (MSc) in July 1997

grants, exhibitions, publicity, honorary positions
2021–2024: member of the ZonMW grant committee Safety II
december 2019: SIA RAAK Publiek grant (€300k, co-applicant) for PAIN, pijntherapie in de eerste lijn: a project in which we aim to develop a teaching method and toolkit for physiotherapists, to support them in biopsychosocial treatment of chronic pain patients
december 2019: SIA KIEM-hbo grants (€20k each) for INVITE (designing visual research tools, applicant), GRIP (tools for designing for social relations, applicant), INSISTENT (mapping scientific literature on behaviour change strategies to support disadvantaged groups, co-applicant), Digital Resilience (generating insights into effective interventions for better learning to detect, deal with and act against disinformation, co-applicant)
february 2019: visiting researcher at Université Grenoble Alpes
november 2018: HU Utrecht personal postdoctoral grant
august 2018: SIA RAAK MKB grant (300k, co-applicant) for Wat Beweegt Jou?!
february 2018: SIA KIEM Creative Industries grant for project In Control (20k, applicant, PI)
february 2018: SIA RAAK TopUp grant for SOLACE (10k, applicant, PI)
november 2017: SIA KIEM Creative Industries grant for project Ontwerpen met Fundament (20k, applicant, PI)
october 2017: Behavioural Lenses toolkit exhibited in exposition De Nieuwe Stijl, Utrecht
july 2016: SIA RAAK TopUp grant for Touchpoints (10k, applicant, PI)
november 2014: Take it slow, Food Cognition and Behaviour grant awarded by NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (100k, co-applicant, PI)
september 2013: PhD project grant, the effect of feedback through digital technology on habit disruption and change, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (applicant)
april 2013: Touchpoints, two year SIA RAAK MKB research grant awarded by SIA (300k, co-applicant)
sept 2010: work shown at Neville Brody’s Antidesignfestival, London
june 2009: external expert (formerly Rijksgecommiteerde) at the final exam of the Graphic design department, Artez Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Arnhem
november 2007: starter stipend BKVB fund (16k, applicant)
september 2007: participant in the exhibition Arnhemse Nieuwe, selection of the most talented graduates of the design departments of the Arnhem college of art
june 2007: Graduation show graphic design, Artez hogeschool voor de kunsten, Arnhem
october 2006: poster selected for exhibition Vertrokken Gezichten