About

Mostly trained as a Social Psychologist (PhD), yet, with transdisciplinary early training and a fairly atypical background, I am fascinated by why we do what we do, how we connect with ourselves and our worlds, effectively navigate our environments, as well as how our future could look like. While still in academia, my work examined links between emotions associated with (un)certainty and information seeking behavior, attention and value, and how obstacles shape our thinking. It has been covered by WIRED Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Huff Post, among others.

I have taught at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University, covering topics such as motivation and cognition, economic and consumer psychology, and the psychology of globalization. At the moment, I am teaching cross-cultural psychology at IES Abroad.

Complementing or inspiring my scientific interests, I grew up with dance and between cultures, studied Fine Art for a while, completed two yoga teacher trainings, and spent many hours meditating. I occasionally consulted small companies, NGOs, and startups on branding and psychology related questions and briefly teamed up as a co-founder with a climate-focused startup aiming to help people eat less meat.