About me

I am an assistant professor in Applied Statistics at the Mathematical Institute at Leiden University. I have strong interest in the communication of statistics and like to collaborate in interdisciplinary projects on this topic.

Research interests

• Optimal scaling regression, specifically in GLMs and survival analysis
• Statistics Communication

Selection of current activities

• Project Optimal Scaling in GLMs, including the development of an R-package
• Reading group “Statistics Communication and (in)numeracy”
• Using factchecks to combat misleading graphs, collaboration with Winnifred Wijnker, Ionica Smeets and Peter Burger. Funded by LUF.
• Chair of Statistics Communication Section of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR)
• Implementation of lesson plan to improve critical thinking regarding statistics in secondary school students – lesson plan developed by students from the Science Communication & Society master specialisation (Annelies Smit, Jesse van Welzenes, Manon Boot,  Neele Dijkstra and Soraya Schachtschabel)