About

I live near Ovar, in central Portugal, with my partner and our animals. I like to hike and run—trail, road, and occasionally further than is sensible.

I grew up in Bremen, Germany, and studied psychology at the University of Groningen. I stayed for a research master's in computational cognitive neuroscience (with MSc research in Brad Wyble's lab at Syracuse University) and a PhD supervised by Hedderik van Rijn and Rob R. Meijer. My thesis, Making the Most of Human Memory, was on how individuals differ in their rate of forgetting and what that implies for adaptive fact-learning systems. I defended in April 2017 and took the rest of that year to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from Canada to Mexico before returning to Groningen for a postdoc.

I moved into freelance and contract work in 2019. Since then I've been contracting through Infinite Tactics on a US Air Force Research Laboratory program, mostly on adaptive learning for foreign language training. I co-supervise PhD projects at Groningen and take on other research-adjacent work as time allows. See what I do for details.