About me

I am an assistant professor at the Methodology & Statistics unit of the Institute of Psychology 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 and (in)numeracy

Selection of current activities

• Research project: Optimal Scaling in GLMs, including the development of an R-package
• Research project: Using factchecks to combat misleading graphs, collaboration with Winnifred Wijnker, Ionica Smeets and Peter Burger. Funded by LUF Lustrum Subsidy.
• Education project: 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)
• Reading group: “Statistics Communication and (in)numeracy“
• Activities for the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR):
  • Founding chair of the Statistics Communication Section
  • Co-coordinator and author for the blog (started at end of April, 2021)
  • Editor of STAtOR magazine