Teaching & Supervision

📚 Courses

• undergraduate Orientation in Artificial Intelligence · Leiden University, 2025-2027 · Co-teacher: Max van Duijn

🌈 Course Assistance

• graduate Human Computer interaction · Leiden University, 2021-2024 · Assistant
• graduate Non-Human Cognition · Leiden University, 2022-2025 · Assistant
• graduate Statement to Experience · Leiden University, 2021 · Group supervisor
• graduate Social Technologies · Leiden University, 2021, 2023 · Agent-based modelling workshop organizer & Assistant
• undergraduate Pervasive Computing · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2015 · Teaching Assistant

🎓 Supervised theses

• graduate Exploring the Bouba-Kiki Effect: Cross-Modal Associations in Vision-and-Language Models · Kiana Shahrasbi · Co-supervisor: Tessa Verhoef

• undergraduate The ‘Magic Word’ for LLMs: A Study on the Effect of Politeness on LLM Performance · Joris Lans · Co-supervisor: Max van Duijn

• graduate Evaluating Llama 3.2 Vision for the Visual Entailment Task: A Study of Zero-shot, Few-shot, and Fine-tuned Approaches · Elena Pitta · Co-supervisor: Tessa Verhoef

• undergraduate The Effect of Visual Cues on Theory of Mind abilities in Multimodal AI · Razo van Berkel · Co-supervisors: Max van Duijn and Peter van der Putten

• graduate Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Human-AI collaboration · Elin Dijkstra · Co-supervisor: Mike Preuss

• graduate Analysis of Reddit Posts regarding Retrograde Cricopharyngeal Dysfunction (R-CPD) using Computational Methods · Annelies Vaandrager · Co-supervisor: Max van Duijn

• undergraduate Structural systematicity under varying meaning spaces · Sayfeddine el Kaddouri · Co-supervisor: Tessa Verhoef

• undergraduate Learning Signal-Meaning Mappings in an Emergent Communication System using Neural Networks · Thomas Blom · Co-supervisor: Tessa Verhoef

• undergraduate Between Service and Self: Probing Consciousness, Perspective, and Self-Preservation in Large Language Models · Sven Fransen · Co-supervisor: Max van Duijn