About a year ago, the Association for Psychological Science awarded me with the Janet Taylor Spence Award for transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Given that I often move on too quickly into the next big thing rather than taking stock a little when good things happen, I wanted to write a short blog… Read more »
I’m extremely happy, proud, humbled, and somewhat nervous announce that my application for an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant was successful (on my first try!), following the announcement by the ERC today. The ERC Starting Grant is part of EU’s Research and Innovation programme, called Horizon 2020. The scheme was quite competitive this year,… Read more »
One of the problems I’ve been facing in academia is that I don’t take pause and celebrate when things go well — after a published paper, I usually just move on too quickly. Rotate, travel, run to the next project. This is my main motivation for keeping this “summary of my academic year” blog series… Read more »
Following up on last year’s summary of 2017, I wanted to write up the highlights of my academic 2018: publications, collaborations, achievements and failures, open science, blogging, and some thoughts about the upcoming year. In summary, due to my new job, and many new obligations that came with it, 2018 was a much busier year,… Read more »
In this blog, I first describe the formal complaint of Dr James Coyne against me, launched a week after my blog post about tone on social media in August 2017. Coyne claimed that I am “aligned with racism” and show “hostility towards patient populations”, concluding that “something needs to be done quickly”. Second, I discuss… Read more »
Three brief personal updates. After living in 6 countries in the last 12 years; after affairs and short relationships with Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich, Free University Berlin, University of Michigan, Arizona State University, University of Leuven, and University of Amsterdam; and after 3 years as a very happy postdoc … I thought I should start… Read more »
Below you find a summary of my 2017 academic year, inspired by a recent blog post by Alexander Etz who concluded: I don’t see these kinds of period recap posts from my blogging colleagues very often. I’m not sure why. Maybe posts like this could feel like bragging about all the good stuff that’s happened… Read more »
I created a collaborator network last year in R, but based that on an excel input file that I created manually, and edited the names using Inkscape. Funny doing it once, but too much effort to repeat that every year. I have a larger number of collaborators now, so I looked into finding an automated… Read more »
Working between disciplines is exciting, and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way. Psychology has become much more interdisciplinary in recent years, and there was a discussion today on social media whether psychologists should ‘know math’. This reminds me of the statement Plato had famously engraved at the door of his Academy in… Read more »
Starting in May 2014, I will be working as a postdoctoral research fellow on psychopathological network models with a focus on affective disorders in the ‘Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences’ at University of Leuven with Prof. Francis Tuerlinckx, in close collaboration with Prof. Denny Borsboom at University of Amsterdam.
I successfully finished my Ph.D with summa cum laude! Thanks to everybody who supported me over the last years. You can find the online version of my dissertation “Covert Heterogeneity of Major Depressive Disorder: Depression Is More Than the Sum-Score of its Symptoms” (125 pages) here.