Academic Positions

• 2023-present. Associate Professor, Evolutionary and Population Biology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
• 2020-present. Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (MPI-CSL), Freiburg
• 2020-2023. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht
• 2018-2020. Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen
• 2012-2017. Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology (tenure 2014), Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen
• 2012. Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Development Center, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Selection of Academic Leadership

• 2022-present. Director, Research Network on Communicating Strength-based Approaches to Child Development and Learning in Adverse Conditions (with support from the Jacobs Foundation)
• 2016-2018. Co-director, Research Network on Adaptations to Childhood Stress (with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Selection of Honors and Grants

• 2021. Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
• 2019-2024. Vidi Grant (Innovational Research Incentives Scheme), Dutch Research Council (NWO)
• 2019. Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• 2018-2020. Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship
• 2017-2023. James S. McDonnell Foundation 2017 Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition (JSMF)
• 2017. Boyd McCandless Award, Division 7 (Developmental Psychology), American Psychological Association (APA)
• 2016. Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• 2016-2018. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant (RWJF)
• 2014-2018. Veni Grant (Innovational Research Incentives Scheme), Dutch Research Council (NWO)
• 2014. New Investigator Award, European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA)
• 2011-2012. UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship
• 2006-2008. Huygens Scholarship, Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science
• 2006-2007. Fulbright Fellowship
• 2006-2007. VSB Foundation Scholarship

Education

• 2012. UCLA, Ph.D. Biological Anthropology
• 2006. University of Amsterdam, M.Sc. Psychology (cum laude)
• 2006. University of Amsterdam, M.A. Philosophy (cum laude)
• 2005. University of Amsterdam, B.Sc. Psychology (cum laude)