Positions 

February 2018 - Present
Chair of the International Scientific Council EFP, a international advisory board of the Expertise center for Forensic Psychiatry in which research and practice with respect to forensic psychiatry and psychology is discussed. 

January 2017 - Present
Member of the Advisory Board Program "Care and Safety" (Zorg en Veiligheid) of Verslavingskunde Nederland.

June 2016 - Present
Member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS).

​January 2014 – Present
Assistant Professor of Forensic Psychology, Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 
April 2012 – December 2013
Assistant Professor of Psychology/Criminology, Department of Criminology at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 
Nov. 2011 –  April 2012
Academic researcher at the department of Forensic Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 
Nov. 2007 – Dec. 2012
PhD candidate at the department of Forensic Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Thesis title: Pathways to violence in schizophrenia: The role of antisocial personality, substance misuse, delusions and delusional distress.”
Supervisors: Prof. H.J.C. van Marle, MD., PhD, & N.M.L. Buck, PhD.
Committee e.g.: K.S. Douglas, LL.B., PhD. (Simon Fraser University, Canada) & Prof. P.J. Taylor, MD., PhD. (Cardiff University, UK).
PhD obtained at December 4th 2012.
 
Sept. 2006 – Sept. 2007
Research internship Master Biological and Cognitive Psychology. Master Thesis: The Novelty P3
component of Highly Sensitive Persons in an auditory Novel Oddball Paradigm. Under
supervision of Prof. Jan van Strien, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 
Sept. 2003 – Sept. 2006
Research internship Bachelors in Biological and Cognitive Psychology. Bachelor’s Thesis: Left-right and upper-lower visual field asymmetries and local and global processing of visual stimuli. Under
supervision of Prof. Jan van Strien, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 
Sept. 2005 – Sept. 2007
Tutor / research assistant in education at the Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Awards 

June 2017
​Christopher Webster Early Career Award of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services

Grants & Funding 
> 500K in total

October 2017
Grant by the Foundation ‘Koningsheide’ for the purchase of a StarStim device, a hybrid tCS&EEG system (€ 10.000).

June 2017
Stichting de Volksbond grant. Project title: "tDCS as a new intervention for reducing violent recidivism in addicted offenders: The effects on addiction outcomes." Principal Investigator (€ 35.000).
 
June 2017
KFZ grant. Project title: "tDCS as a new intervention for reducing violent recidivism in addicted offenders." Principal Investigator (€ 70.000).
 
November 2016
WODC grant. Project title: “Alcohol and violence: A development and validation of tests.” Co-PI with Prof. Ingmar Franken en Dr. Sylco Hoppenbrouwers
(€ 87.325,70).
 
Mei 2015
Funding by the ‘Fonds Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam’ for a visit to Prof. Jean Decety, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Chicago (€ 800).
 
August 2014
Grant by the National Police, the Netherlands concerning “Screening and threat assessment of disordered threateners.” Principal Investigator (PI)
(€ 206.027).
 
June 2013
WODC grant (Research and Documentation Center of the Ministry of Justice). Project title: “Risk Factors for Repeated Victimization.” Co-PI with Dr. Tamar Fischer (€ 33.000).
 
November 2012
WODC grant. Project title: “Crime Victims’ Experiences with Seeking Compensation.” Co-PI with Prof. Siewert Lindenbergh (€ 50.000 euro).  
 
February 2012
Funding by the ‘Fonds Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam’ for the 12th IAFMHS conference in Miami (€ 500).
 
July 2011
Funding by the ‘Fonds Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam’ for the 11th IAFMHS conference in Barcelona (€ 400).
 
March 2011
Grant by the Foundation ‘Koningsheide’ for the biannual conference and collaboration meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy,
May 2011, Montreal, Canada (€ 1.090).
 
July 2010
Funding by the ‘Fonds Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam’, for a work visit at the department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada for research collaboration (€ 1.100).
 
April 2010
Funding by the ‘Fonds Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam’ for the 10th IAFMHS conference in Vancouver (€ 650).
 
March 2009
Funding by the ‘Fonds Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam’ for the 9th IAFMHS conference (€ 450).
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