dr. I. van Sintemaartensdijk (Iris)

I am an assistant professor focused on understanding decision-making and behaviour change in the criminal domain. As part of my job I actively collaborate with the sections of Public Administration, Psychology Health Technology and Communication to achieve interdisciplinary research and education. In addition to this I also act as secretary of the HIB-cluster.

Medicine & Life Sciences

# Criminals
# Decision Making
# Intention
# Personality
# Virtual Reality

Social Sciences

# Guardianship
# Scenario
# Virtual Reality

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Psychology of Conflict, Risk and Safety (PCRS)

In my research I focus on understanding decision-making and behaviour change in the criminal domain. For both criminals and potential victims I aim to find out how they might get involved in crime and how to prevent this from happening. In one of my research lines I focus on cybercrime and how to make potential victims more resilient. In another research line I focus on the application of virtual reality to understand burglars, the training of potential guardians and how crimes can take place in virtual environments. Lastly, I am interested in the use of AI for both crime prevention and how crime potentially can take place.

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I teach both in the bachelor and master of Psychology. More specifically, I am the module coordinator for Module 7 (Research Methods and Research Project) and together with dr. Hanneke Kip, dr. Hanneke Scholten en dr. Caroline Fischer developed the course “Behaviour and Technology: an interdisciplinary approach”.

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.