Annual report 2018 . Leiden University . University of Amsterdam . University of Groningen . Tilburg University . University of Twente . Utrecht University . KUL University of Leuven . Statistics Netherlands (CBS) . Psychometric Research Center (Cito) IOPS Annual Report 2018 Contents Foreword ................................................................................................................................................. 1 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Background .............................................................................................................................. 2 1.2 Role of IOPS (contrasted with local graduate schools)............................................................ 2 1.3 Aims and activities of IOPS ...................................................................................................... 3 1.3.1 Activities .......................................................................................................................... 3 1.3.2 Quality of PhD research ................................................................................................... 3 1.3.3 Connecting PhD students to the labour market .............................................................. 3 1.4 Admittance to the IOPS postgraduate program ..................................................................... 4 1.5 Affiliated student membership ............................................................................................... 5 2 Organization .................................................................................................................................... 6 2.1 History ..................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Participating and cooperating institutes ................................................................................. 6 2.3 Board and office ...................................................................................................................... 8 2.4 Cooperation with Related Master programmes ..................................................................... 9 2.5 Board & plenary meetings ....................................................................................................... 9 2.6 Archive ................................................................................................................................... 10 3 The IOPS post graduate programme ............................................................................................. 11 3.1 Educational programme ........................................................................................................ 11 3.1.1 IOPS curriculum ............................................................................................................. 11 3.1.2 Courses in 2018 ............................................................................................................. 11 3.1.3 Number of IOPS students per course ............................................................................ 12 3.1.4 Examination ................................................................................................................... 12 3.1.5 Course evaluation .......................................................................................................... 13 3.2 Research training programme ............................................................................................... 13 3.2.1 Peer review .................................................................................................................... 13 3.2.2 Conferences: aims and programme .............................................................................. 13 3.2.3 Conferences in 2018 ...................................................................................................... 14 3.3 IOPS certificate ...................................................................................................................... 14 4 Students and their projects ........................................................................................................... 15 IOPS Annual Report 2018 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 15 4.2 Admissions, deregistrations and dissertations ...................................................................... 15 4.2 Dissertations .......................................................................................................................... 19 4.3 New projects.......................................................................................................................... 32 4.4 Running projects .................................................................................................................... 45 5 Staff ............................................................................................................................................... 55 5.1 Professorships ....................................................................................................................... 55 5.2 Staff changes ......................................................................................................................... 55 5.3 Staff members ....................................................................................................................... 57 5.4 Associated staff members ..................................................................................................... 60 5.5 Honorary emeritus members ................................................................................................ 61 6 Scientific awards and grants .......................................................................................................... 62 6.1 Awards and grants honored to IOPS staff members ............................................................. 62 6.1.1 Scientific awards ............................................................................................................ 62 6.1.2 NWO Grants .................................................................................................................. 62 6.1.3 International grants ....................................................................................................... 65 6.2 Awards and grants honored to IOPS PhD students ............................................................... 68 6.2.1 Scientific awards ............................................................................................................ 68 6.2.2 Grants ............................................................................................................................ 68 7 Research output ............................................................................................................................ 68 7.1 Scientific publication ............................................................................................................. 68 7.1.1 Dissertations by IOPS PhD students .............................................................................. 68 7.1.2 Other dissertations under supervision of IOPS staff members ..................................... 69 7.1.3 Refereed article in a journal .......................................................................................... 69 7.1.7 Conference contribution (proceeding) .......................................................................... 94 7.2 Professional publication ........................................................................................................ 95 7.3 Popular publications .............................................................................................................. 96 7.4 Other results .......................................................................................................................... 98 7.4.1 Editorial activities .......................................................................................................... 98 7.4.2 Software and test manuals ............................................................................................ 99 7.4.3 (Paper) presentation ..................................................................................................... 99 7.4.4 In press ........................................................................................................................ 100 7.4.5 Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................. 100 8 Finances ....................................................................................................................................... 102 IOPS Annual Report 2018 8.1 Financial statement 2018 .................................................................................................... 102 8.2 Summary of receipts and expenditures in 2018 .................................................................. 102 8.3 Balance sheet 2018 ............................................................................................................. 102 Appendix 1: Contact details of IOPS institutes .................................................................................... 104 Participating Institutes ...............................................................................................................