Employment History
- October 2021 – Present: Freelancer and Independent Entrepreneur
Amsterdam - January 2020 – September 2021: Analytics Translator
Xomnia
Amsterdam - January 2017 – January 2020: Senior Research Scientist Artificial Intelligence
Expertise group Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
TNO Soesterberg - May 2015 – December 2016: Postdoc researcher (fixed term)
Interactive Intelligence group
Delft University of Technology / 4TU.Humans&Technology - Feb 2014 – May 2015: Postdoc researcher (fixed term)
Interactive Intelligence group
Delft University of Technology - Feb 2010 – Feb 2014: PhD student
Intelligent Systems group
Utrecht University (collaboration with TNO Soesterberg)
Degrees
Artificial Intelligence (PhD) – Utrecht University & TNO
Institute: Utrecht University Graduation date: June 2014 Title: Personalized Educational Games Supervisors: Karel van den Bosch John-Jules Ch. Meyer Mark A. Neerincx Graduate school: SIKS
Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (Ma.Sc.)
Institute: Utrecht University Graduation date: February 2010 Title: The confluence constructor Supervisors: Vincent van Oostrom Albert Visser John-Jules Meyer
(Cognitive Educational) Psychology (Ma.Sc.)
Institute: University of Maastricht
Graduation date: April 2006
Title: The relation between social
environment, learning styles
and the appreciation of
powerful learning environments
Internship: Open Universiteit (OTEC)
Supervisors: Karen Könings
Margje van de Wiel
Saskia Brand-Gruwel
Atheneum
Institute: Bernardinus college (Heerlen)
Graduation date: July 1999
Detailed overview of courses taken
PhD Artificial intelligence (SIKS)
- Interactive Systems
- Combinatory Methods
- 3TU NIRICT Spring School
- Research Methods and Methodology
- Learning & Reasoning
- Information Retrieval
- Academic Writing in English
- AI for Games
MSc Cognitive artificial intelligence (Utrecht University)
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Multi-Agent Programming
- Advanced Data Mining
- Commonsense Reasoning
- Conceptual Semantics
- Dynamic Semantics
- Advanced Vision Science
MSc Educational psychology
Maastricht University
- Reasoning and decision making
- Propaganda, social influence & persuasion
- Information processing (multimedia)
- Cognitive & social development
- Knowledge acquisition & cognitive architecture
- Evaluation and assessment
- Instruction
Facultative courses on social psychology (University of Amsterdam)
- Motivation and social cognition
- Attitudes and decision-making
- Intragroup and intergroup processes
- Emotions
Athenaeum (Bernardinus College Heerlen)
- Mathematics A
- Mathematics B
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Dutch
- English
Miscellaneous
- 2015-2017: Member of the Steering Committee
4TU.Humans&Technology - 2011 – 2013: Member of the board
Staff association TNO Soesterberg - 200-2008: (Chief) sailing instructor (only during summers)
Sailing School “de Kikkert” (Lemmer)