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2021-current: Research data manager

Utrecht University Library, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
🔽 Job description

As a research data manager, I support researchers at the university with their data management and open data-related issues. Typical topics include data storage, privacy, metadata, making data and software FAIR, reproducibility, version control, etc.

2020-2021: Lab and data manager

Society, Youth and Neuroscience Connected (SYNC) lab, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
🔽 Job description

  • As data manager, I formulated ways to move towards open science practices and looked at how the group handled their research data (privacy, data structure, long-term access, etc.) and how we could improve that. In both data management and open science, I tried to educate myself as much as possible and keep a close eye on international developments, connecting with researchers and support staff from national and international institutions.
  • As lab manager, I coordinated and supported all kinds of lab-wide events and initiatives, including (but not limited to):
    • organizing meetings
    • functioning as liaison between the SYNC lab and EUR's research support staff
    • improving how we worked (incl. with data)
    • involvement in the citizen science platform, YoungXperts, where youth are actively involved in the group's research during brainstorms and cocreation sessions

2020-2021: Data manager

Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
🔽 Job description

As data manager for L-CID, a large multi-cohort twin study, I helped make the data and metadata FAIR and their documentation interpretable, in order for this amazing dataset to be useful and useable in the future.

2019-2020: Data manager

Brain and Development Research Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
🔽 Job description

In this developmental psychology group, I helped researchers transition towards applying better data management and open research practices, such as folder structures and versioning, preregistration, data sharing and privacy issues. I continued this job when the Research Center was split up into the SYNC lab and the CHANGE Leiden research platform.

2019-2020: Educational content developer and e-moderator

Utrecht University Medical Center and Animal Welfare Body, Utrecht, The Netherlands
🔽 Job description

In the development and testing phase of the learning track My Animal Research: Experimental Design, a learning track for PhD students who are setting up an animal experiment, I developed the contents of the online learning environment and functioned as e-moderator during the pilot phase of the project (Sept.-Dec. 2019), keeping contact with all involved participants, teachers and coordinators.

2010-2019: Several side jobs

During my secondary school and university studies, I had several side jobs
🔽 List of jobs

  • 2016-2019: Tutor for several secondary school pupils in several subjects (e.g, maths, chemistry, Latin, Greek)
  • 2018-2019: Student assistant on the Brainlinks project at the Brain and Development Research Center, Leiden University
  • 2016: Summer school tutor (maths and Latin): pupils had the chance to still go to the next year if they passed a test after two weeks of additional study in the summer
  • 2014-2016: Sales employee at Blokker, Utrecht
  • 2012-2013: Cashier at Jumbo supermarket, Leeuwarden

2016-2021: Online courses

To gain some more relevant skills, I sometimes follow online courses, most of them in my free time
🔽 List of courses

  • 2021: Introduction to programming in Python - Center for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University, see the materials here
  • 2019-2020: Specialization Data Science: Foundations using R - Johns Hopkins University via Coursera
  • 2019: Research data management and sharing (grade: 89.7%) - UNC & University of Edinburgh via Coursera
  • 2019: Adobe InDesign Made Easy: A Beginners Guide to InDesign - Infinite Skills via Udemy
  • 2016: Several statistics courses (average grade: 92.6%): Basic statistics, Inferential statistics, quantitative methods - University of Amsterdam via Coursera

2016-2019: MSc Neuroscience and Cognition (8.5)

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Major: Cognitive neuroscience
Minor: Science education and communication
🔽 Activities

  • 2018-2019: Intern education - Utrecht University Museum, Utrecht
    As part of my minor Science education and communication, I developed an educational program for the University Museum Utrecht for secondary school pupils (havo/vwo 1-2 and vmbo 1-3) about social sciences (attention), using the methods of inquiry-based learning (onderzoekend leren)
  • 2018: Literature research: 'Neural mechanisms of adolescent fear extinction and fear extinction during reconsolidation: a literature review', supervised by dr. Marieke Bos and prof. dr. Joke Baas.
  • 2017-2018: Research intern - Brain and Development Research Center, Leiden University, Leiden
    During this internship, I set up, carried out and wrote about an fMRI study and planned and tested many adolescents (9-17 years old) for a large longitudinal research project (Brainlinks)
  • 2017-2018: Author (2017: 11(1)) and reviewer (2017: 11(1-2) & 2018: 12(1-2)) at the Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition
  • 2016-2017: Secretary - Mind the Brain symposium, Utrecht University, Utrecht
    With 8 students, we organized a two-day neuroscience symposium, themed 'Criminal Minds'
  • 2016-2017: Research intern - Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht
    During this project, I set up, carried out and wrote about a longitudinal experiment into unilateral hearing loss and sound localization among healthy adults
🔽 Theses and reports

  • Huijser, D.C. (2018). Neural mechanisms of adolescent fear extinction and fear extinction during reconsolidation: a literature review. Master thesis, link to thesis.
  • Huijser, D.C. (2018). Tapping Trust Task (TTT): Investigating the mechanisms of interpersonal synchrony in the trust game. Internship report, link to report.
  • Huijser, D.C. (2017). Using audiovisual recalibration to restore spatial hearing in the human brainstem during asymmetrical hearing loss. Internship report. Embargoed.
  • Huijser, D.C. (2017). Functional connectivity changes and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition, 11(1), link to review.

2013-2016: BSc Liberal Arts and Sciences (8.2)

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Major: Cognitive and neurobiological psychology
Minor: Language development
🔽 Theses

  • Huijser, D.C., & Lichtenberg, L. (2016). Social Status and Status Motivations: The Association between the Wish for Popularity and Social Status in Late Childhood. Bachelor thesis, http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/338248
    Thesis supervised by dr. Aart Franken, grade: 8.0/10
  • Huijser, D.C., Bakermans, M., Purkins, M. (2015). Looking down, moving up. An interdisciplinary approach to the consequences of the current language situation that has developed as a result of the elite status of the English language in India. Interdisciplinary bachelor thesis, http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/340072
    Thesis supervised by dr. Merel van Goch, grade: 7.9/10

2007-2013: Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs (VWO) (8.1)

Christelijk Gymnasium Beyers Naudé, Leeuwarden,The Netherlands
Profile: Economics and Society

Languages

Dutch (native), English (competent in writing, understanding, speaking), French (basic), German (basic), Frisian (basic)

Software

Microsoft Office and Google alternatives, (interactive) presentation tools, Markdown, Git(hub), HTML, R, SPSS

Competences

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Organization, analytical, collaborative, goal-oriented, eager to learn, communicative