About me

I am a first-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Yale University where I work with Dr. Shirley Wang in the Computational Clinical Science (CCS) Lab.

My work in the CCS Lab focusses on understanding temporal dynamics of symptoms that give rise to and reinforce suicidal thoughts. I use formal mathematical and computational models to increase our understanding, and prediction of suicidal thoughts, behaviors, and non-suicidal self-injury. Other interests of mine include investigating the interactions between negative urgency and suicidal behaviors, and assessing idiographic risk factors.

Before joining this Ph.D. program, I graduated from Leiden University where I completed my BSc majoring in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. I have continued my education at the same institute by pursuing a Research MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology. Throughout my master's, I completed a research internship with the Rutledge Lab at Yale University as a visiting graduate student where I studied computational mechanisms of self-esteem. Moreover, I gained clinical experience working part-time with children and adolescents at the Child Assessment Group. a psycho-diagnostic practice. After that, I wrote my MSc thesis in collaboration with Dr. Eiko Fried and Dr. Arielle Baskin-Sommers on a network analysis of conduct behavior.