I am a PhD candidate in the Cascading Transitions Lab, affiliated with the Psychological Methods programme group. 

In my research project “Cascading Transitions in Opinions”, I usee complex systems models to describe, simulate, and theorise about the processes of attitude formation and change, both at the intra-individual and inter-individual levels. My focus is also empirical – several of the projects I work on are focused on testing the assumptions and predictions of formal models of attitudes. My PhD project is supervised by Prof. Dr. H.L.J. van der Maas & Dr. J. Dalege, and is part of the ERC funded project "Beyond the Tipping Point: Cascading Transitions in the Behavioral and Social Sciences" (ERC, Cascade, 101053880.)

I am also passionate about Open Science, and am an active member of the Open Science Community Amsterdam (OSCA). I am working as Open Science community manager for the OSCA at the UvA. My goals are increasing the visibility of the OSCA and building a strong open science community at the UvA. During my studies, I was also involved in the Student Initiative for Open Science (SIOS).

Research expertise

• Opinion polarisation
• Attitudes
• Complex systems
• Open science