Vita
Employments
- 01.2025 - current
Postdoctoral Researcher
Communication Science Department, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamAffiliated with the Network Institute.
- 03.2022 - 09.2024
Postdoctoral Researcher
Human-Media Interaction group, University of TwenteAffiliated with the Personalized eHealth Technology strategic research programme until 2023, affiliated with the Expertise Centre on Remote Monitoring and Coaching starting 2023.
- 03.2022 - 10.2023
Researcher Virtual Coaching & AI
R&D, Innovation Sprint (Belgium) - 09.2020 - 03.2022
Researcher
Biomedical Signals and Systems group, University of TwenteAffiliated with the Personalized eHealth Technology strategic research programme.
- 09.2017 - 09.2020
Junior Researcher
Roessingh Research and Development - 01.2016 - 06.2016
Intern
Dedicon - 05.2011 - 11.2015
Student Assistant
Linguistics department, Radboud University - 05.2015 - 06.2015
Student Assistant
Artificial Intelligence department, Radboud University
Education
- 09.2017 - 12.2021
Doctor of Philosophy
Biomedical Signals and Systems group, University of Twente - 09.2014 - 08.2017
Master Artificial Intelligence (sp. Web and Language Interaction)
Radboud University - 09.2010 - 08.2014
Bachelor Artificial Intelligence
Radboud University
Certifications
University Teaching Qualification
01.2024 - ongoingGood Clinical Practice certification (GCP-WMO)
04.2023Professional activities
Invited talks
- Guest lecture “Conversational Agents in eHealth” as part of the Data Science in Clinical Practice course in the Clinical Psychology Research Master at the UvA (2023, November). Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Presentation “Virtual Health Coaches” at the OPRAH Study Symposium (2023, July). Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Presentation “Personalised Intelligent Interactions with Conversational Agents in eHealth” at the 2nd VU Campus Center Conference: AI & Health – from paper to practice (2023, June). The session was hosted by dr. Stéphanie van den Berg. Invited speakers: dr. Maryam Amir Haeri, dr. Armağan Karahanoğlu and dr. Tessa Beinema. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Presentation “Council of Coaches: digital care by virtual agents” for the session “the staffing crisis in healthcare” at the 2022 TechMed Event. The session was hosted by prof dr. Maroeska Rovers. Invited speakers: Joyce Berger-Roelvink, RA, prof. dr. ir. Erwin Hans, dr. Françoise Siepel, and dr. Tessa Beinema.
- Panel “College Tour interview- Personalized eHealth Technology” at the TechMed Research Day 2022 (June 16th). The session was hosted by prof. dr. ir. Hermie Hermens and Anneliene Jonker. Invited speakers: dr. Tessa Beinema, dr. Anouk Middelweerd, Carlijn Braem, MSc., dr. Annemieke Witteveen, dr. Annemieke Konijnendijk, and dr. Marco Raaben.
- Presentation “Tailoring coaching conversations with virtual health coaches” in a parallel session at the TechMed Research Day 2022.
Peer review activities
- Reviewer/programme committee member International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2022 – 2024)
- Reviewer International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2024)
- Reviewer for journals:
- ACM Transactions in Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- Patient Education and Counseling
- PLoS ONE
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
- Member of the NeFCa (2025)
University activities
- Student member of the Degree Programme Committee for the Master Artificial Intelligence (2014-2015)
- Student member of the Degree Programme Committee for the Bachelor Artificial Intelligence (2013-2014)