2025 Dec – Interview in the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant on night shifts and the biological clock. [Link]
2024 Dec – NEMO Science Live experiment in the 2024 Christmas vacation, involving > 600 visitors of the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam [Link].
2024 Nov – Launch of http://www.Bioklok.nl, the Dutch public website on chronobiology, including teaching material for high schools on the biological clock [Link]
2024 Sep – Pop-up chronotype activity at Betweter Festival in Utrecht
2024 Oct – Interview on Light O’Clock podcast – Season 2 – Episode 4: In and out of sync [Link]
2024 Jun – Pop-up chronotype activity at Museumnacht in Leiden
2024 Jun – Interview on NEMO Kennislink: “Dag, nachtdienst! Biologische klok belangrijk voor gezondheid” [Link]
2024 Mar – Radio interview on NPO Radio 1 EenVandaag (March 12, 2024) on what we know about the effects of light on human health [Link]
2024 Jan – Interview in Volkskrant about night shift work (January 12, 2024): Nachtdiensten zijn ongezond. Hoe beperk je de schade? [Link]
2023 Sep – Pop-up chronotype activity at the Night of Discoveries in Leiden [Link]
2023 May – Interview with Dutch Sleep Wake Organisation NSWO: Goed slapen in het ziekenhuis: is dat mogelijk? [Link]
2023 Mar – Interview in de Morgen: Biologische klok regelt veel meer dan enkel je slaapritme. [Link]
2023 Feb – Commentary in BioNieuws on recently published article on the molecular circadian clock in human tissues: ‘Biologische klok afhankelijk van leeftijd en geslacht’ [Link]
2022 Dec – Pop-up science activity at the final festival of Leiden ESOF2022 – Are you a morning or evening person? Take the test! [Photo]
2022 Dec – Interview in New Scientist: Dit zijn de laureaten van de Heineken Young Scientists Awards 2022. [Link]
2022 Dec – Interview in Algemeen Dagblad: ‘Futloos na je werkdag? Zo blijf je de hele dag door energiek’ [Link]
2022 Nov – Interview in The Guardian: ‘It’s killing us all slowly: how the night shift is taking a toll on US workers’ [Link]
2022 Sep – Interview in Telegraaf (largest Dutch daily newspaper; September 5, 2022): ‘De biologische klok is allesbepalend’. [Link to Telegraaf] [Article]
2022 Aug – Interview in Hersenmagazine (magazine of the Dutch Brain Foundation): ‘Het ritme van de hersenen: de impact van een verstoorde biologische klok’. [Article]
2022 Jul – Interview in LindaNieuws (popular Dutch women’s magazine; July 16, 2022): ‘Deze onderzoeker wil meer aandacht voor de biologische klok om de zorg te verbeteren’. [Link]
2022 Jul – Live radio interview on Sleutelstad FM on winning the Heineken Young Scientist Award for research on the biological clock and health. Link.
2022 Mar – Development and coordination of public workshop on the biological clock and Daylight Saving Time. Day activity on March 25 at Leiden European City of Science 2022. Link
2021 Nov – Live radio interview on NPO Radio 1 (NTR Focus) on the importance of the biological clock for health. Listen here (in Dutch).
2021 – Dutch translation of Enlighten your clock – open access comic book on the biological clock and light; co-authors: Marijke Gordijn, Eus van Someren. Link to comic
2021 – Chapter (in Dutch) on the health consequences of shifted sleep for information booklet on sleep for Stichting Biowetenschappen en Maatschappij and accompanying article on the website. Link to booklet. Link to article on website.
2021 – Media coverage of my publication in SLEEP doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsaa225
- WIRED – The Pandemic Changed Sleep Habits. Maybe That’s a Good Thing
- Science Daily – Early bird or night owl? Study links shift worker sleep to ‘chronotype’
2020 April – Interview with NPO Radio 2 on whether all animals have a biological clock, including those that live in constant darkness. Listen here (in Dutch).
2019 Oct – Workshop on ‘How does your biological clock work?’ (design and presentation) at science festival Weekend of Science at NEMO Science Museum, Amsterdam.
2018 – Trainee spotlight – The Douglas Hospital Research Centre. Link
2018 – Media coverage of my publication in PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1720719115:
- STATNEWS – Stubborn genes: New research looks at how our bodies respond (or don’t) to night shift work
- Radio Canada – Le corps ne s’adapte pas aux horaires de nuit
- Metro – Effet des horaires de nuit
2018 – Article “What Keeps Me Ticking” published by Stories in Science. Link
2017 – Interview on Daylight Saving Time for Châtelaine, French Canadian magazine of women’s lifestyles. Link
2017 – Interview for the Mare, the independent newspaper of the Leiden University. Link
2015 – 2016 – Columnist for the Mare, the independent newspaper of the Leiden University. Examples (in Dutch): Stellingen – Planet 50-50 – De weg naar de eindstreep –
2015 – 2016 – Content developer of educational material about circadian biology for high-school students on behalf of the STW OnTime consortium (www.bioklok.nl)
2015 October – Radio interview on the busyness of daily life. RTV Noord-Holland on
2015 October – Newspaper article: “We hebben het druk, druk, druk” (in Dutch only) published in Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad on October 10, 2015. PDF
Awarded with first prize – a gold medal – of the yearly Royal Holland Society for Science and Humanities (KHMW) essay competition. News item
Circadian Medicine Group 
