K.J.M. van Hooijdonk (Kirsten)

Kirsten works as a PhD candidate at the Developmental Psychopathology group of the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University in Nijmegen. She holds a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences from the Radboud University Nijmegen and a master's degree (cum laude) in Biomedical Sciences (specialisation tracks consultancy and epidemiology) from the Radboud University Nijmegen. During her master program, she spent four months at the University of Glasgow, Scotland where she specialised in nutritional epidemiology.

Currently, Kirsten is part of the Healthy Student Life project - a research project in which epidemiological data on well-being, health behaviour, personal and contextual factors are gathered by combining different qualitative and quantitative research methods. During her dissertation, she mainly focusses on the themes well-being and health behaviour as she is upmost interested in how (the combination of different) lifestyle(s) impact(s) health and disease.

• Developmental Psychopathology

• Substance use, addiction and food group (SAF)