TESC is a broad network of researchers in and outside the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. All researchers have their own expertise and field of interest. Curious who is involved? Take a look in this overview.
Assistant Professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. Alexandra investigates the development of goal-directed behavior across the lifespan combining experimental, behavioral and electrophysiological measures.
PhD-student at the Department of Developmental Psychology. Her research focuses on how youths manage school transitions on the short- and long-term.
Assistant Professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. She studies the short- and long-term change processes of personality development in diverse social contexts.
Assistant professor at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on the role of emotion regulation in mental health problems using a multimethod approach.
Postdoctoral researcher, Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland (IKNL) and department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on cancer survivorship issues using patient-reported outcomes, physiological measures and biomarkers.
Assistant professor at the Dept. of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Charlotte investigates neurotoxic mechanisms in oncological and neurodegenerative diseases, by combining imaging-biomarkers and ecological momentary assessments.
PhD-student at the Department of Human Resource Studies. Her research focuses on individual job crafting behavior using ESM.
Researcher at GGzE and Tranzo, Scientific center for care and welfare. Diana’s research focuses on the re-integration and personal recovery of persons that suffer from severe and complex problems.
Chair of the department Tranzo (TSB) Scientific Center for Care and Welfare, and full professor Transformations in Care.
Assistant professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. Her research focuses on emotion (regulation) dynamics in adolescents and young adults and innovative ways to improve the methodological quality of ESM.
Full professor at the department of Human Resources Studies. Her research focuses on successful aging at work and Human Resource Management.
Assistant professor at the department Medical and Clinical Psychology and fellow of the Dutch Cancer Society. Dounya studies the relation between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer.
Associate Professor at the department of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence. He is interested in developing machine learning solutions to predict and improve mental health, well-being, and education using ESM and sensor data.
Associate Professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. Eeske is interested in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation, improving Experience Sampling research, and developing personalized interventions to improve mental health and well-being.
Assistant Professor, Medical and Clinical Psychology. One of the core members of m-Path, platform for ESM research. He investigates methodological ways to improve this data collection method, and uses this method to investigate mechanisms of affective derailment in clinical groups.
Assistant professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. Aiming to study forensic psychopathology in adolescents (e.g. conduct disorder, antisocial personality pathology, psychopathy).
Full professor occupying an endowed chair at Tranzo, Scientific center for care and welfare. Esther works on detecting rare diseases in the general population and integrated care for those affected.
PhD-student at the Departments of Developmental and Social Psychology. Evgeniya’s research focuses on within-person emotions and their measurement in well-being across the lifespan.
Associate professor, department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her research focusses on cancer survivorship issues. She is one of the founders of the PROFILES registry.
Assistant-professor at the department of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Gijs uses eye tracking and behavioral observations to study the role of gaze in human interaction, with a focus on parent-child interactions. He is also interested in theoretical and methodological issues of representative design and generalizability in psychological science.
Assistant professor at the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. His research advances scientific knowledge about why self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (e.g., cutting, hitting oneself) emerge and how to predict and prevent their occurrence.
Full professor at the department of Social Psychology. His current research focuses on interdependence theory and phsyiological correlates such as pupillometry and thermal imaging.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics. Interested in psychometrics, SEM & (intensive) longitudinal data, and network analyses.
Assistant Professor in the Sociology department. Interested in understanding the social causes of disease, particularly of mental health and wellbeing.
Associate professor at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. One main research interest concerns temporal dynamics between attention (e.g., mindfulness), thinking, and affect in daily life.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology. She studies negative behavior (e.g., bullying and harassment), technology (e.g., technostress) and wellbeing (e.g., emotions) in the context of work.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. His research bridges cognitive, affective, and social science approaches to uncover how people interpret ambiguous situations and how this process goes awry in psychopathology.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics. Joran’s research is on the analysis of intensive longitudinal data and intensive longitudinal methods. He frequently collaborates with others on studies that require analyses.
Associate professor at the department of Methodology and Statistics. Expert in data analysis, in particular high-dimensional and linked data.
Assistant professor at the department of Human Resource Studies. Keri studies the use and interplay of self- and other-focused emotional intelligence in the work context.
PhD Student at the departments of Developmental Psychology and HR Studies. She studies personality development during the transition to work.
Associate professor at the department of Methodology and Statistics. Kim is developing methods to understand within- and between-person differences in measurement models underlying participants’ answers in ESM-data.
Assistant professor at the department of Methodology and Statistics. She is developing methods for evaluating within- and between-person differences in measurement models underlying participants’ answers in ESM-data.
PhD-student at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on how people interpret socio-emotional information and how it is related to mental health and interpersonal difficulties within close relationships.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology. She studies what fosters and thwarts relationships, the emotional dynamics within and between people and how this relates to recovery in clinical contexts.
PhD-student at the department of Methodology & Statistics and the department of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Her research focuses on the prediction of postpartum depression with machine learning methods.
PhD-student at the departments of Tranzo and Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on physical, psychological, and social recovery processes after traumatic injury.
PhD student at the department of Methodology and Statistics. His research focuses on the measurement and analysis of dynamic constructs.
Associate Professor at imec-mict-UGent. Guest researcher at the departments of Cognition & Communication and Culture Studies at Tilburg University. Mariek examines short- and long-term associations between smartphone use, health and wellbeing.
Full professor occupying an endowed chair at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Healthcare psychologist, CBT therapist and supervisor, head of the research department at the Helen Dowling Institute.
Assistant Professor, department of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Her research focuses on early life experiences and how these influence baby’s brain development. She uses ESM to tap into mother’s experiences during pregnancy and after birth.
As a project manager for TESC Marjolein takes care of the communication of TESC and other supporting activities, such as the maintenance of the website, writing newsletters and organizing meetings.
Assistant Professor, Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on affective dynamics, mechanisms underlying affective changes, and relationships with mental health (changes) in (non-)clinical populations.
Guest researcher at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, and senior researcher at the Helen Dowling Institute. Her research focuses on the dynamic process of fatigue and resilience in cancer patients.
Assistant professor in Qualitative Research Methods. Her work is aimed at improving youth-tailored mental health care by innovating person-specific assessment. She develops mixed methods ESM designs for meaningful and valid idiographic measurement.
PhD student at the department of Methodology and Statistics. Interested in network models, computational statistics, and power analysis.
Assistant professor, Medical and Clinical Psychology. Mirela’s research focusses on health behavior change (using new technologies) in patients with cardiovascular disease.
Assistant Professor, department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on maternal wellbeing during pregnancy and early parenthood, also addressed using ESM to study experiences of mothers.
PhD Candidate at the Human Resource Studies Department. Nadica is researching the well-being and career development of students through character strengths interventions.
Assistant Professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. She studies memory in younger and older adults both in the laboratory and everyday life.
Associate professor at Medical and Clinical Psychology and head of the behavioral physiology lab (GO-LAB). Involved in psychophysiological research using ambulatory (e.g., wearables, ambulatory monitors) and standardized lab methods.
Associate Professor at the department of Organization Studies. His award-winning research focuses on problems of organizing between organizations (e.g., adaptation and coordination).
Assistant professor at the department of Social Psychology. Olga’s research addresses the role of beliefs and worldviews in shaping social behavior and individuals’ life outcomes.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology. His research focuses on daily life in the context of lifespan development.
Assistant Professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. In her research, she tries to understand why some parents and children prove more responsive when it comes to changing their behavior in response to interventions than others, using a multimethod approach.
Assistant professor, Human Resource Studies. His research is situated at the crossroads of leadership, HRM, and the digital transformation of work.
Associate Professor at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University. Her research focuses on the role of lifestyle factors in diabetes and related vascular diseases, how to initiate and maintain a healthy lifestyle in the long-term.
PhD-student at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on lifestyle of cancer patients and survivors.
Associate professor at the department of Social Psychology. Seger studies emotions and decision making, often in cultural or socioeconomic contexts.
Full professor and chair of the department of Developmental Psychology. His research concentrates mainly on clinical groups, especially forensic psychiatric patients.
Full professor and chair of the department Medical and Clinical Psychology. His research focuses on (ambulatory assesment of) stress in relation to the development and maintenance of psychoapotology.
Teacher at the department Medical and Clinical Psychology. Wendy is interested in studying the psychological factors behind obesity.
Full professor at the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. His research focuses on ambulatory assessment of emotions, physiology, and physical symptoms in patients with cardiovascular disease and healthy individuals.
Assistant Professor at the department of Developmental Psychology. She studies emotional experience in daily life and its relationship with well-being.
Ph.D. candidate at the departments of Developmental Psychology and Human Resource Studies. Her research focuses on identifying and enhancing emotional resources for sustaining daily cognitive functioning in workplace settings throughout the lifespan
PhD-student at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Anne studies the micro-dynamics of parenting adolescents, using experience sampling methods.
PhD-student at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science. His research focuses on setting up a large scale panel for extensive real-world experimentation on personalising treatment allocation.
Postdoctoral researcher at Erasumus University Rotterdam. IJsbrand studies methods for assessing reliability and validity of person-specific measurements collected through ESM. Ultimately, these methods will be applied in Ehealth apps used by adolescents.
Full Professor of Orthopedagogy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Loes is intrigued by mental health and well-being of teenagers. Former director of TESC.