I am an assistant professor in the Human Data Science group at the Methodology and Statistics department of Utrecht University. I am the team lead of the ODISSEI Social Data Science team working on several projects in the domain of computational social science.

My work covers a broad range of topics in statistics and computation. I have worked on structural equation modeling, regularization & penalization, Bayesian statistics, multilevel generalized linear models, geospatial data analysis, visualisation, optimization, federated learning, privacy, fairness, measurement, synthetic data, and more.

During my PhD I investigated how to extend structural equation models for modern data problems. As part of my PhD, I visited the lab of Rogier Kievit in Cambridge. I was also a part-time software developer at JASP.

If you want to get in contact, you can use my e-mail address: or send me a message on Mastodon.

Here are some links to statistics & programming-related things I enjoy: Explained Visually, distill journal, grug brained developer, INFOMDA2 course materials, Andrew Gelman, Stan, JASP, Social Data Science team.