Thanks for visiting my website, which zooms in on my research and research-related activities.

I am currently employed as an assistant professor by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. A dominant theme in my work is the role of representations in the production of knowledge. Until recently I mainly zoomed in on visual representations – for instance, images of the brain generated by a scanner - but I also became interested in citations as representations of scholarly communication. My research in Leiden focuses on the growing use of assessment procedures and bibliometric indicators in scientific and scholarly research, and the positive and negative effects on knowledge production.

Before coming to Leiden, I held a postdoctoral position at the Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) in Amsterdam, where I participated in the research project “Network Realism. Making knowledge from images in digital infrastructure.” Results of the project have been published in Library Trends, and in the forthcoming edited volumes New Representation in Scientific Practice and Virtual Knowledge (both MIT Press).

In 2010, I received my PhD with honors from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. My dissertation focused on different visual ways of knowing the brain, from the 17th century to the present, in relation to what constitutes an authoritative image. The book manuscript is currently under review at a major university press in the U.S. I was a research fellow at the University of California, San Diego in 2010, and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2007.

I am on the editorial board of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, and have published in several peer-reviewed journals, including History of the Human Sciences, Theory & Psychology, the aforementioned Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Library Trends, and the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.

Feature article on thesis in Dutch national radiological journal Memorad (2011).