PhD supervision
Over the past years I have supervised the following PhD students.

• Since 2022 Boris Kuiper is working on a project about meta-analysis and the interdisciplinary aggregation of data and scientific findings, under joint supervision of Tanja van der Lippe from sociology at Utrecht, Ronald Stolk from the CIT in Groningen, and me, in the context of the SCOOP program.
• Since 2022 Andrea Ragno is working on a project about competition and collaboration in science, under joint supervision of Naomi Ellemers from psychology at Utrecht, Felipe Romero, and me, in the context of the SCOOP program.
• Since 2021 Thijs Ringelberg is working on a project about scientific information sharing and the credit economy of science, under joint supervision of Russell Spears from psychology in Groningen, Leah Henderson, and me, in the context of the SCOOP program.
• Since 2021 Helena Slanickova is working on a project about the value-ladenness and the radical uncertainty surrounding evidence-based policy, under joint supervision of Martin van Hees from the Free University Amsterdam, Francesca Giardini from sociology in Groningen, Chloé de Canson, and me, in the context of the SCOOP program.
• Since 2021 Gabri Heinrichs, a lecturer at St Joost School of Art and Design, works on a thesis about quality assessment in higher education, focusing on conceptual problems in the practice of intersubjective quality measurement, after he received a doctoral grant for teachers from NWO. I supervise this project jointly with Rafael Wittek from sociology in Groningen. Gabri is a member of the SCOOP consortium.
• Since 2021 Freek Oude Maatman is developing a radically pragmatist view on confirmation and experimentation in psychological science, under the combined supervision of Markus Eronen from Groningen, Jan Bransen from Radboud University in Nijmegen, and myself.
  
• Since 2019 Hendrik Siebe works on a project about social deliberation and judgment aggregation. He is supervised by me and by Andreas Flache from sociology in Groningen in the context of the SCOOP program.
  
• Since 2018  Sean Gryb is working on a project in the physics and epistemology of cosmology. He is supervised by Simon Friederich while Diederik Roest and I serve as advisors and promotors. 
• Between 2018 and 2022 Stefan Sleeuw worked on a project about analogical inference and understanding. I supervised him together with Jeanne Peijnenburg. He graduated in 2023 and is currently combining work as a part-time lecturer in philosophy with work as a cartographer.
  
• From 2017 to 2018 I served as advisor to Hylke Jellema for a thesis on the intersection of confirmation theory and legal reasoning, supervised by Anne-Ruth Mackor and Henry Prakken. He graduated in 2023 and is currently employed at the University of Groningen.
  
• From 2016 until 2021 Joost Schreuder worked on a thesis concerning the use of empirical data in moral psychology and ethics. He was supervised by Leah Henderson while Daan Evers and I co-supervised. He graduated in 2021 and is currently employed as a consultant at AC adviseurs.
  
• Since 2016 Merel Semeijn is working in the Vidi project of Emar Maier, on a thesis about fiction and the philosophy of mind and language. I acted as her promotor. She is currently working as a postdoc in Paris.
  
• Between 2014 and 2019 Ot de Wiljes was a PhD students on a project supervised by Fred Keijzer, while I acted as his promotor. Ot worked on computational models of nervous systems, as a topic in theoretical biology and in the philosophy of mind. He graduated in 2020 and currently heads a data management unit at Entis.
  
• From 2015 until 2017 Max Bialek worked at the Department of Theoretical Philosophy. Max was also a graduate student at the University of Maryland at College Park. His thesis concerned laws of nature. He is currently a part-time lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
• From 2014 until 2017 Marta Sznajder worked on a project in inductive logic and conceptual spaces, under joint supervision of Hannes Leitgeb and myself. Marta was also a PhD student at the MCMP of the LMU in Munich. She is currently a Veni-postdoc at Groningen.
• From 2013 until 2017 Tom Sterkenburg was a PhD students on a project jointly supervised by Peter Grunwald and myself. He worked on a philosophical appraisal and a further development of Solomonoff's theory of universal prediction. He is currently a researcher heading an Emmy Noether group at the LMU in Munich.
• From 2012 until 2017 Pieter van der Kolk wrote a PhD thesis on rational disagreement among epistemic peers. In his thesis he argues in favour of a permissivist epistemology. Pieter currently works as a software engineer.
• From 2011 until 2016 Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz worked in my Vidi-project on a thesis about chance-credence principles. He is currently working at the University of Gdansk.
• From 2011 until 2015 Franziska Köder was a PhD student at the Department for Theoretical Philosophy, supervised by Emar Maier and Petra Hendriks. I had a formal role as her promotor. She now works in Bergen.
• From 2011 until 2015 Ronnie Hermens worked in my Vidi-project on the philosophy of quantum chances. He moved to Oxford after graduating and obtained a prestiguous Veni-grant in 2017.
• From 2011 until 2015 I co-supervised the thesis of Hanna van Loo. She graduated with distinction and won several prizes for her thesis, including the Ramaer medal and the Wieringa-Rengerink PhD prize. Her research concerns the epidemiology and conceptual foundations of mental disorders, specifically depression. She currently works at the research centre for psychiatry in Groningen.
• From 2009 until 2012 I collaborated with Rogier Kievit, who worked in the group of Denny Borsboom. We investigated the use of measurement models for giving empirical content to positions in the reductionism debate. He currently works in Cambridge.
• Between 2007 and 2010 I was co-supervisor of Rens van de Schoot, who worked in the group of Herbert Hoijtink from Utrecht University on the project Learning More from Empirical Data Using Prior Knowledge. Rens is now working in Utrecht.