My Experience

Work | Education | and more


Work experience & job history

Current position

2022 - present | Utrecht University & Nederlandse Spoorwegen

PhD candidate Human Centered AI for Mobility

Context-aware personalization for public transport information systems

2019 - 2021 | Yacht trainees, IT&Care and Nationale Nederlanden

UX trainee

Develop myself as a user researcher through courses and external projects.

  • IT&Care. I worked on improving the online experience of workplace healthcare providers. Instigated more user research in the development process.
  • Nationale Nederlanden. I worked on the Human Capital Planner, a pension insights portal for employers and financial advisors.

2019 | RISE (Research Institures of Sweden) & TU/e

Graduate intern - VR video eye tracking research

Research on the relaton between the quality of experience of VR videos and visual behavior through eye tracking analysis.

2018 | Valtech_

Internship Research & UX

A short research project on the privacy experience online, and how the privacy paradox can be reduced with communication and UX.

2017-2018 | Unipartners & Tilburg universiteit

Student Consultant

Projects for Tilburg University as developer of a HBO-Master Matching Tool TISEM, and de Kamer van Koophandel as creative session facilitator

Degrees

MSc Human Technology Interaction

  • Exchange data science at KTH Stockholm
  • Thesis: The Contribution of Eye Tracking to Quality of Experience Assessment of 360-degree video

BSc Industrial Design

  • Minor Cognition and Social Interaction
  • Thesis: Insomniary, an interactive alarm clock sleep diary for insomnia patients.


Other eduction and qualification

  • Ken&Ben School of Work. Personal & professionasl development program
  • Artesc. the Art of Scientific Writing
  • ACM RecSys. Summer School on Recommender Systems2023

Activities & Achievements

Organization

2024 | Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) | Cagliari, IT

Co-organizer, 2nd edition Context Representation in User Modeling Workshop (CRUM)

2024 | CHI Nederland | Utrecht, NL

Co-program chair, Dutch CHI community event

2023 | ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | Hamburg, DE

Assistant to Allyship Chairs, Allyship Chairs CHI2023 organizing committee

2022 - present | PhD group at the Human-Centred Computing Group | Utrecht University, NL

Chair, HCC PhD social committee

2021 | Yacht trainees | online, NL

Co-organizer, UX Trainees community day

2016 | Student association Industustrial Design: Lucid | TU/e, NL

Treasurer, Lucid study trip committee

Service

2022 | Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) | Barcelona, ES

Volunteer, ACM SIGCHI UMAP conference

2019 - 2021 | Yacht Trainees | NL

Graphic design, Yacht trainees communication

2015 | Dutch Design Week | Eindhoven, NL

Exhibition host, Mind the Step exhibition Dutch Design Week

Grants

2022 | Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) | Barcelona, ES

UMAP Travel Grant: Conference registration and travel costs


Contact

Utrecht University

Buys Ballotgebouw Room 4.13

Princetonplein 5 3584 CC Utrecht

The Netherlands