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Researcher

I am a cognitive psychologist fascinated by how people learn, particularly when they self-regulate their learning. In collaboration with researchers from different labs (national and international), I study self-regulated learning processes and how to improve those in children, adolescents, higher education students, and professionals (mostly physicians). The questions we pose are answered through a variety of methodological approaches; from focus group interviews, to behavioural experiments (with or without eye tracking measures), and fMRI scanning. This research has been subsidised through various grants (e.g., NWO-Veni, NWO-PROO, NWO-PPO).

As a member of the Maastricht Young Academy (MYA), I aim to be a voice for young researchers at Maastricht University and disseminate the intriguing results and importance of scientific research in the Limburg region and beyond.

Educational practitioner

Next to my work as a researcher, I aim to translate these insights to educational practice. Not only by teaching university students (at Maastricht University), but also through a book my colleagues and I wrote (‘Toolbox: Tien oefenstrategieën uit de geheugenpsychologie om toe te passen in de klas’. Rotterdam: Stichting BOOR), and an evidence-based training we designed that is aimed to improve higher education students’ study skills (‘Study Smart training’, subsidised by a Comenius Teacher Fellowship grant). 

PhD coordinator

Finally, as PhD coordinator at the Graduate School of Health Professions Education and as chair of the Faculty PhD Committee at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (Maastricht University), I aim to provide PhD students the best possible training and coaching, so they can blossom and become highly qualified, independent and balanced researchers.