Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD Candidate, Utrecht University
Position funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) as part of the Public Values in the Algorithmic Society research program.
MSc Methodology and Statistics (Research), Utrecht University, 2023
Applied Data Science Track
Active in: Natural Language and Text Processing (NLTP) Lab, Mice Team/ Missing Data Group, ASReview Team
Research Master’s Thesis: “Unblackboxing BERT for Text-Mining: Case of Mental Disorder Prediction”
BSc Psychology, University of Groningen, 2021
Member of the Excellence Program for Psychology & Honors College
Honors Bachelor’s Thesis: “Detecting Bipolar Disorder from Social Media”

Research Assistant to Dr. Caspar van Lissa (April 2022 - December 2022)
- Tilburg University
- Literature search and article drafting on the topic of Latent Class Analysis.
Researcher at ASReview (September 2022 - December 2022)
- Utrecht University
- Extracted information from articles for a systematic review on the use of active learning for systematic reviews.
- Taught a text-mining computer practical to MSc Applied Data Science students.
Research Assistant to Dr. Simon Dalley (March - May 2019)
- University of Groningen
- Digitized and prepared survey data for two separate studies.
Research Internship with Prof. Dr. Margaret Stroebe and Dr. Henk Schut (July 2018 - March 2020)
- Utrecht University / University of Groningen
- Data digitization, survey design, statistical analyses, and article drafting.
- Peer-review for OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying under Dr. Stroebe’s supervision.
Research Internship with Prof. Dr. Judith Daniels (June 2017 - September 2018)
- University of Groningen
- Collected qualitative data, drafted an article and submitted the manuscript to a journal.

Teaching Assistant to Dr. Ayoub Bagheri (May - August 2022, 2023)
- Methodology and Statistics Summer School
- Assisted with the update and instruction of coding practicals for two summer school courses:
  Introduction to Text Mining in R, and Applied Text Mining (Python).
- Designed and instructed a lab session on transformer models, explainability and bias
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Rens van de Schoot (May - August 2022)
- Methodology and Statistics Summer School
- Assisted with AI-Aided Systematic Reviewing practical construction and teaching.
Teaching Internship - Statistics II (September 2020 - January 2021)
- University of Groningnen
- Taught $2^{nd}$ year BSc Psychology students statistics computer practicals in JASP.
Teaching Internship - Dialogue and Group Skills (February - June 2019)
- University of Groningnen
- Planning lessons and teaching BSc Psychology students about basic communication skills and group dynamics.
- Revised course syllabus with Dr. Stacey Donofrio
Teaching Internship - Working with Psychology (January - June 2019)
- University of Groningen
- Teaching BSc Psychology students career development skills.
Teaching Internship - Communication and Diagnostic Skills (September 2018 - January 2019)
- University of Groningen
- Teaching BSc Psychology students micro-counselling skills in role-played clinical interview setting.

Data Analyst / Consultant (September 2021 - March 2022)
- ARGO BV / University Medical Center Groningen
- Collection, processing and visualization of socio-economic indicators.
- Supervisors: Dr. Roya Shokoohi and Dr. Peter van Linschoten
Data Analyst / Consultant (February - September 2020)
- Neuroflash
- Visualization of multilingual semantic networks, interpretation of findings,
  construction of narratives for several projects and presentation of findings to external clients.
- Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Mall

Proceedings Chair (May - July 2023)
- The 2nd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF’23), Winterthur, Switzerland
- Ensured quality of accepted papers, reached out to authors to collect camera-ready pdfs and author agreements
- Participation funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Coordinator Summer School Methodology and Statistics (May - August 2022)
- Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University
- Supported my department in the organization and administration of 18 summer school courses for over 650 students.
- Designed evaluation forms and prepared a report.
Course Administrator (September 2019 - February 2021)
- University of Groningen
- Tracked student attendance, issued and graded student make-up assignments for two BSc Psychology courses.