Marjolein Fokkema
Professorship:
Computational Statistics with Applications in Psychology, 1. August 2026
Department:
Statistics
Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security
Studies and doctorate:
- 2015: PhD in Quantitative Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2008: MSc in Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Stages:
- 2023-2025: Associate professor, Methodology and Statistics, Institute of Psychology, Leiden Universiteit, Netherlands
- 2015-2023: Assistant professor, Methodology and Statistics, Institute of Psychology, Leiden Universiteit, Netherlands
Focus in research:
- Interpretable Machine Learning
- Psychological Assessment and Psychometrics
- Statistical methods for multilevel and multisource data


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