Mentoring & Teaching
Course Design & Coordination
The Attachment Nest: Interdisciplinary Understanding of Attachment and Human Development
3 EC, (post)graduate level
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL)
2023, 2024
Course evaluation: 4.6/5
Guest Lectures
Developmental Psychobiology, 2025
Course: Developmental Psychology (undergraduate level)
Host: Prof. Dr. Waters, NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Interpersonal synchrony, 2021
Course: Developmental Psychobiology (graduate level),
Host: Prof. Dr. de Weerth, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen (NL)
The development of social relations from an attachment perspective, 2019
Course: Social Relations (graduate level)
Host: Prof. Dr. Lansu, Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen (NL)
Human attachment and socio-affective development, 2019
Course: Cognitive Neuroscience (undergraduate level)
Host: Dr. Fabbri, University of Groningen (NL)
Seminars & Workshops
NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Python-based cardiac & electrodermal data processing: 1-week module, 2024
Autonomic signal pre-processing, data quality, and experimental setups: regular meetings, 2024–2025
Leipzig University, Leipzig (DE)
Building an EMG Lab: Recordings and Signal Processing: 1-week module, 2021
Radboud University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Nijmegen (NL)
Academic Skills for Psychologists, undergraduate level, 1 semester,
2021
Development and Mental Health: Psychopathology from a Lifespan Perspective, undergraduate level, 1 semester/year,
2018–2021
Research Project, undergraduate level, 1 semester,
2018–2021
General Introduction to Psychology, undergraduate level, 1 semester/year,
2016–2021
Perception, Action, and Development, undergraduate level, 1 semester/year, 2016–2021
Academic and Professional Skills, undergraduate level, 1 semester/year,
2016–2017
Individual Supervision
Ph.D
Nicole Rheinheimer, Cognitive Neuroscience Dep., RU Medical Center: Development of regulation from infancy to adolescence – The role of early caregiving (link to dissertation), with Prof. Dr. C. de Weerth
MASTER
Aicha Mazrina, MSc in Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam: Parents’ attachment representations and affect co-regulation of their children with disabilities, 2024-2025
Georgia Graat, MSc, Biomedical Sciences at RU: Caregiving determinants of physical health throughout the first 14 years of life, 2022-2023
Roosmarijn Kockelkoren, MSc in Biomedical Sciences at RU: Biological aging and sleep disturbances throughout childhood. A longitudinal study, 2021-2022
Nina Bruinhof, MSc in Behavioral Sciences at RU: Prenatal hair cortisol during the COVID-19 crisis: associations with psychological Stress and infant temperament, 2020-2021
Sofia Weidle Scatolin, MSc in Behavioral Sciences at RU: Breastfeeding during COVID-19, 2020-2021
Maja Kapitler, Ma, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia): Can facial emotional expressions be contagious? Evidence from pupil dilation and electrical facial muscle activity, 2017-2018
BACHELOR
Ritz Guan, Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi, 2025-2026
Sabrina Gonzalez, Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a specialization in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi, 2025-2026
Azka Noor, Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with minors in Economics and Creative Writing from New York University Abu Dhabi, 2024-2025
Greeshma Giridas, Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with minors in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies and Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi, 2024-2025.
