Philip Eijlander Diversity fellows

Philip Eijlander Diversity fellows

Mariek Vanden Abeele

Mariek Vanden Abeele is associate professor at the School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. She combines media psychological and media sociological perspectives to better understand the social implications of mobile media. Given her multi-disciplinary background, Abeele has a dual appointment at both the department of Cognition and Communication and the department of Culture Studies, where she examines how anytime, anyplace connectivity affects our everyday life and society.  

Federica Angeli

The research and teaching activities of Federica Angeli focus on the role of inclusive business and hybrid organizations in alleviating poverty and bridging health inequalities. Because innovative business models – such as social entrepreneurship, base-of-the-pyramid ventures and public-private partnerships and networks - can be crucial in tackling complex societal issues, she wishes to advance our knowledge on these dynamics.

Yvonne Brehmer

Yvonne Brehmer is professor for Successful Aging in the Department of Developmental Psychology. Her research focusses on the modifiability and plasticity of cognitive development and aging, memory training across the lifespan, finding behavioral and neural brain correlates of inter-individual differences in memory functioning, and how inter-individual differences in memory functioning, social participation, and well-being are linked to successful aging.

Angélique Cramer

Angélique Cramer is a key developer of the network perspective on health and well-being issues, for example psychiatric disorders (e.g. depression). Funded by both a NWO innovational Veni and a KWF grant she works on network theory, methodology, as well as the implementation of network modeling in (clinical) practice. In addition, Angélique Cramer is a director of the recently founded Tilburg Experience Sampling Center. She was a fellow at the NIAS Institute and is a member of the Young Dutch Academy.  

Monique van Dijk-Groeneboer

As a professor of Religious Education, Monique van Dijk-Groeneboer connects theology, values and education. She conducts research in values of pupils and develops evidence-based teaching methods for religious education in secondary education. She is a PEDP fellow at the department Practical Theology and Religious Studies at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology.

Leena Grover

As an associate professor of International Law, Leena Grover’s research mainly lies at the intersection of law and peace. In her work, she uses a variety of research methods to understand laws that aim to reduce conflict or respond to it, contributing analysis on their integrity, operation, potential and limitations. Informing her academic work is more than a decade of experience practicing law.

Eleni Kosta

Eleni Kosta is professor Technology, Law and Human Rights. She carries out research on the challenges technology poses to human rights. Eleni Kosta is particularly interested in privacy and data protection, specializing in electronic communications and new technologies.

Nynke van der Laan

Nynke van der Laan is associate professor in Digital Health Communication. She investigated the neural and attentional mechanisms underlying the behavioral effects of several media (packaging, banners, advertisements, virtual reality). Her current research lines focus on how persuasive communication, in conjunction with new media, can change health behavior.

Anne Lafarre

Anne Lafarre is an assistant professor at the Department of Business Law. As a result of her multidisciplinary background, her research sits at the heart of the law and economics research area. She works mainly in the field of corporate governance, with a special focus on shareholder voting in Annual General Meetings. 

Carla De Pietro

Carla de Pietro works as assistant professor at the Fiscal Institute Tilburg (FIT) where she focuses on International and EU tax law. She is also academic director of the master International Business Taxation. She conducts research on the relationship between the International and the EU legal orders, in the light of anti-abuse initiatives.

Wendy Powell

Applications of Virtual and augmented reality for healthcare, training and education, and the influence of immersive systems on perception and behavior are the research areas of Wendy Powell, associate professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is passionate about understanding emerging technologies and the ways in which we interact with them.

Juliëtte Schaafsma

Diversity and inclusion are central themes in the research and teaching of Juliëtte Schaafsma, professor of Cultures in Interaction. As a social scientist, her interests lie broadly in cultural diversity and interethnic relations, processes of social in- and exclusion, and intergroup hostility and reconciliation.

Maureen Sie

Maureen Sie is professor of Philosophy of Moral Agency. Her thematic expertise is on so called human embodied and embedded agency, that is, human agency studied from the fact that our actions and behavior are thoroughly influenced by the culture we live in, the technological shape of our everyday surroundings, and our physically and biologically determined responses to one another and these surroundings.

Jenny Slatman

Jenny Slatman’s chair at Tilburg University is the first in Medical Humanities in the Netherlands. Her ambition is to develop this much needed discipline, and to train and supervise students – on all levels – to be critical and productive evaluators of current health care, either as academic researcher or as professional within health care

Tatiana Sokolova

Tatiana Sokolova’s research lies in the judgment and decision-making domain, with a focus on factors that change the way in which people process information. She is a PEDP fellow at the Marketing department at TiSEM.

Caroline Vander Stichele

Caroline Vander Stichele is professor in the field of Biblical Studies at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology. Her research and publications focus on the impact of the Bible in Western Culture. She is especially interested in the interplay between visual artefacts (in art and modern media) and gender issues.

Linnet Taylor

Linnet Taylor is assistant professor of Data Ethics, Law and Policy at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), where she leads the ERC-funded Datajustice project. Her research focuses on the use of new types of digital data around issues of development, urban planning and mobility. She was a Marie Curie research fellow at the UvA with the Governance and Inclusive Development group; a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, and she studied a DPhil in International Development at the University of Sussex.

Wendy van der Valk

Wendy van der Valk is an associate professor in Purchasing & Supply Chain Management at TiSEM. Her research focuses on effective governance of inter-organizational relationships in supply chains, with a focus on the functions of contracts and their interplay with relational governance mechanisms. She is particularly interested in how complex, business-critical services are contracted for and managed within exchange relationships, and to what effects.