About us

The Empower your PhD project is a university-wide project, initiated by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW). It is a partnership between Leiden University and Utrecht University. The project team is multidisciplinary and includes policy staff, researchers, lecturers, HRM coaches and a software developer.

Core team

Verena Ly Senior policy adviser

Projectleader and Principal Investigator
Thaddeus Bergé Policy officer
Inge van der Weijden Senior researcher
Veerle Zijleman Student assistant
Caroline Archambault Assistant Professor
David Ehrhardt Associate Professor
Tineke Rutgers Career adviser / coach
Annemijn Algra Onderzoeker UMC Utrecht, department of neurology and neurosurgery
Rick Bonants Softwareontwikkelaar InSci