My research examines (in)voluntary transitions that employees and organizations experience, and must navigate, such as (mass) layoffs, denied promotions, workforce aging, or technologization. I study how transitions can be communicated effectively by leaders, how transitions shape the behaviors, thoughts, and emotions of individuals (e.g., societies, leaders, employees), how they affect workplace relationships, and how they influence organizational outcomes such as employer reputation. A core feature of my work is its system-level perspective connecting different levels of analysis. For instance, I treat industry-level mass layoffs as an important contextual boundary condition and investigate how organizations and employees interpret and respond to them. Conversely, I link firm-level indicators (e.g., managerial practices reported in company documents) to broader, country-level patterns (e.g., reported leadership practices) and industry-level social support systems. 
Recent projects include (1) analyzing social support networks on large-scale online platforms following recurring, industry-wide mass layoffs; (2) analyzing 250,000 company reports linked to GLOBE leadership practices to identify organizational and managerial characteristics that help explain how quickly employees are laid off around the world and (3) examining 20 years of career adaptation among workers who encounter challenges during vocational training. 

Methodologically, I use a range of approaches, including (natural) experiments and large-scale qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniques such as web scraping and natural language processing (e.g., sentiment analysis and topic modeling) to turn text into analyzable quantitative data.

Dutch Sector Plan: Societal Transitions and Behavior Change
Core Member of the cross-university and cross-discipline collaboration across seven Dutch universities and disciplines (e.g., management, psychology, sociology, business administration) to understand how behavioral change drives societal transformation and vice versa. Contributing to a multilevel analytical framework and evidence base spanning sustainability, circular economy, energy transition, digitalization, and democratic renewal to strengthen policy-relevant impact. We explore those interconnections to derive an interdisciplinary, multi-level toolkit for planning, conducting, and assessing social transitions.
See also the SSH homepage for more details.

AIWitness
Member of the Behavioral and Social Science Change Process.
An interdisciplinary collaboration between the RUG, Capgemini, Scotti AI, and the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security with the aim to automate witness statements using AI following a science-backed approach. Contributing as one of two researchers driving the project in examining and integrating perspectives from key stakeholders to identify risks, needs, and implementation pathways.
See the AIWiteness Homepage for more details.

I am coordinating and lecturing the courses Organizational Development and Change (Bachelor) and Power and Leadership (Master). Besides these courses, I serve as a supervisor for Bachelor's and Master's theses, as well as for master students during their practical industry internships.  

At the University of Klagenfurt, Faculty of Business and Law, I am appointed as an external lecturer for the course 'Human Resource Management', for which I received the Best Teacher Award in 2021.

I am an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Business and Psychology, and I regularly serve as an ad hoc reviewer for Human Resource Management, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Applied Psychology: An International Review, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.