Professional activities

Invited talks

• TechTalk at Levvel Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Scheduled for March 31, 2026. Together with prof. dr. Elly Konijn.
• Presentation KNAW “AI will always love you” event, Trippenhuis Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Together with prof. dr. Elly Konijn.
• Guest lecture “Conversational Agents in eHealth” as part of the Data Science in Clinical Practice course in the Clinical Psychology Research Master at the UvA (2023, November). Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Presentation “Virtual Health Coaches” at the OPRAH Study Symposium (2023, July). Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Presentation “Personalised Intelligent Interactions with Conversational Agents in eHealth” at the 2nd VU Campus Center Conference: AI & Health – from paper to practice (2023, June). The session was hosted by dr. Stéphanie van den Berg. Invited speakers: dr. Maryam Amir Haeri, dr. Armağan Karahanoğlu and dr. Tessa Beinema. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Presentation “Council of Coaches: digital care by virtual agents” for the session “the staffing crisis in healthcare” at the 2022 TechMed Event. The session was hosted by prof dr. Maroeska Rovers. Invited speakers: Joyce Berger-Roelvink, RA, prof. dr. ir. Erwin Hans, dr. Françoise Siepel, and dr. Tessa Beinema.
• Panel “College Tour interview- Personalized eHealth Technology” at the TechMed Research Day 2022 (June 16th). The session was hosted by prof. dr. ir. Hermie Hermens and Anneliene Jonker. Invited speakers: dr. Tessa Beinema, dr. Anouk Middelweerd, Carlijn Braem, MSc., dr. Annemieke Witteveen, dr. Annemieke Konijnendijk, and dr. Marco Raaben.
• Presentation “Tailoring coaching conversations with virtual health coaches” in a parallel session at the TechMed Research Day 2022.

Programme committee member/reviewer

• Programme Committee member for the ‘Designing
  a research agenda for responsible AI-supported behaviour change’
  workshop at the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2025).
• Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference (2022 – 2024).

Conference reviewer

• International Communication Association Conference (ICA) (2026)
• International Confernece on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (2026)
• Conference of the Media Psychology Division (2025)
• Reviewer IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025)
• International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2024)

Journal reviewer

• ACM Transactions in Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
• BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
• Computers in Human Behavior
• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
• Patient Education and Counseling
• PLoS ONE

Professional networks

• Netherlands | Flanders Communication Associaton NeFCA (Member, 2025 – current) 
• IEEE (Member, 2025)
• Network Institute (Member, 2025 – current)
• Digital Media & Behavior Lab (Member, 2025 – current)
• Expertise Center for Monitoring & Coaching (Network member, 2022 – current)
• Artificial Social Agents Evaluation Instrument Workgroup (2021- current)
• Agents United Alliance (Coordinator, 2020 – 2024)
• VNSU Digital Society Health & Well-Being (Coordinator for the UT, 2020 – 2023)
• Personalized eHealth Technology Strategic Programme (Core team member, 2020 – 2023)

Event organisation

• Workshop ‘BRIDGE – Social Robots from Childhood to Young Adulthood
  Bonding, Responsibility, Interactions Across Domains, Growth of Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Ethics’ co-located with RO-MAN 2025 (Aug. 25, 2025).
• Symposium ‘Human-Robot Bonding’ (Mar. 21st, 2025).
• Symposium ‘Digitalising Genetic Counselling’ (Nov. 10th, 2023)

University activities

• Student member of the Degree Programme Committee for the Master Artificial Intelligence (2014-2015)
• Student member of the Degree Programme Committee for the Bachelor Artificial Intelligence (2013-2014)