News
March 2024: I was invited to give a talk titled "Robots for and with humans" and to participate in a panel discussion for the SHErobots Cafés at the Delft University of Technology. The link to this talk and panel discussion can be found here
March 2024: I was invited to give a talk titled "Robots & humans" for the KIVI Annual Conference
January 2024: I was invited to talk about how to apply for an NWO Open Mind grant in the NWO Open Mind Information webinar
November 2023: I was invited to be in the NWO - Insight Out Panel Discussion of 2023. The topic of the panel discussion was "Navigating the Dutch Academic System". We talked about various relevant topics, issues, and potential solutions, including how the current Dutch academic environment can grow to further embrace and welcome international employees and students, our experiences about unwritten rules that exist in the Dutch academic system, and the difficulties that women experience compared to their male fellows in the Dutch academic system.
October 2023: I was interviewed by EOS Psyche&Brein (2304, theme “hoogbegaafdheid”) about how we combine artificial intelligence and systems and control theory to let robots autonomously understand and interact with humans, especially people with autism. Read this interview here.
January 2023: An interview with me was published by NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschapelijk Onderzoek) on January 5, 2023, about my research on "Drone as AI therapist for children with autism". Read the interview in Dutch here and in English here.
December 2022: AD Haagsche Courant (Dec. 6, 2022) published an interview with me in Column "Onze Professoren" [Our Professors], with the title "Robots moeten het gevaarlijkste werk overnemen: Robotleven is minder waard dan een mens" [Robots should take over the dangerous tasks]. In this article I have answered questions from what my main motivations for working with search-and-rescue robots are to how robots and firefighters will interact with each other in the future. Read the complete interview here.
October 2022: In the National Geographic Magazine (Dutch Edition, October 2022), column "Talentvolle Onderzoekers Verkennen Onze Wereld'' [Talented Researchers Explore Our World], pp. 133-135, an interview with me was published, on my research with search-and-rescue robots, entitled "Gaan robots ons redden?" [Are robots going to save us?]
February 2022: I was selected as one of the Financieele Dagblad Young Talents of 2022.