In 2010, she completed a master (cum laude) in Methodology and Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences at Utrecht University. Her subsequent PhD work at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (VU University Amsterdam) was aimed at improving statistical methods to optimize inference from complex neuroscience data. After a period of research at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, she started her current position as assistant professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics of Utrecht University.