I am Professor of Computational Methods for Psychological Research at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London (UK).

Previously I held a position at the UCL Dawes Centre for Future Crime and obtained my PhD from the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.

My research revolves around the interplay and advancement of psychological research and computational methods to study human behaviour.

I seek to answer two questions:

  1. How can computational methods enhance our understanding of the human mind and behaviour?
  2. How can psychological research methods inform our understanding of computational model behaviour?

Substantive research interests include:

With our ERC Synergy Grant for our project JUSTICE, part of my research will focus on computational legal psychology to combine human and artificial intelligence for evidence-based and human rights-compliant investigatve interviewing.

In our Computational Psychology and Computational Methods (CPCM) Lab, we collect data in psychological experiments and develop and apply techniques from natural language processing, (adversarial) machine learning, and statistical modelling to better understand human behaviour and psychological processes.

You can find an overview of papers on Google Scholar and some additional outputs here. Sometimes media outlets cover our work.

I am teaching in various programmes. Most of the course materials are available online.

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