Her research areas are the history of psychiatry, the history of addiction treatment and the social history of alcohol and drugs. Her current research focuses on the heroin epidemic in Western Europe (1970-2000). Her publications include Achter de voordeur. Sociale psychiatrie vanuit de GGD Amsterdam in de twintigste eeuw (Amsterdam: AUP 2014); 'Gentle knights. Masculinity, teetotalism and aid for alcohol abuse c. 1900', BMGN. Low Countries Historical Review 127 (2012) pp. 101-126; and Ziek of zwak. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse verslavingszorg (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij NIeuwezijds 2011).