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Willem Bantema Senior researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Willem Bantema  Senior researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Willem Bantema, PhD (1984) works as lecturer-researcher at the Cybersafety Research Group. In 2010, he graduated in Sociology at the University of Groningen with a specialization in quantitative policy research. From 2011 to 2016 he finished his PhD in Sociology of Law at the Department of Law at the University of Groningen. He specializes in quantitative and qualitative research methods (mixed methods) in the field of regulatory compliance and law enforcement. His dissertation was titled: ‘Why do bars rebel against the smoking ban? A socio-legal analysis of motivational postures and regulato…

Maike Berkenpas junior researcher research group Cybersafety

Maike Berkenpas junior researcher research group Cybersafety

Maike (1996) is a junior researcher since December 2020. Since the third year of studying safety and security management she specialised in Cybersafety and graduated in the summer of 2020. Since the third year of education she specialised in Cybersafety. She primarily focused on the prevention of cybercrime. And there are several research projects in which she played part and where she gained new knowledge. Such as a research for a municipality to engage an Electronic-boa at the department of Monitoring and Enforcement. The subject of her graduation thesis was the implementation of the leadin…

Marja Blok Officemanager Cybersafety Research Group

Marja Blok Officemanager Cybersafety Research Group

Marja Blok is officemanager of the Cybersafety Research Group since 2010. She loves arranging and organizing. She is the first you talk to when you call. She likes a personal approach and considers it important that you feel you are treated in a friendly and correct manner. One of the challenges of her work is the contact with many different types of people. She finds it important to know exactly what is going on and to be able to act quickly. As all-round office manager her goal is to make everything run smoothly.

Jildau Borwell PhD-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Jildau Borwell PhD-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Jildau Borwell MSc (1988) is an external PhD candidate at the Cybersafety Research Group since December 2018. Her research subject is the impact of cybercrimes on victims and its consequences for the role of the police. The choice of the subject is partly prompted by the information requirements of the Digitization and Cybercrime programme of the Dutch police.

In 2011 Jildau completed the Master of Sociology at the University of Groningen, with a specialization in Criminality and Safety. Subsequently she enrolled in the Bachelor of Policing at the Police Academy in Apeldoorn, which she complet…

Sander Ebbers Lecturer-researcher and PhD-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Sander Ebbers Lecturer-researcher and PhD-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Sander Ebbers, MSc (1989) works as a lecturer-researcher and PhD-candidate at NHL Stenden and the Cyber Science Center. He graduated in Industrial & Organizational Psychology at the University of Groningen. Previously to his current position he worked 5 years as a cyber-security consultant. On behalf of a wide range of organizations, Sander conducted Security Awareness and Privacy Awareness programs during his time as a consultant. Within the research group, Sander investigates how the behavior of employees can contribute to a safe digital environment within organizations, from a I&O-…

Marko van Eekelen Professor of Faculty of Computer Science

Marko van Eekelen Professor of Faculty of Computer Science

Prof. Dr. Marko van Eekelen is Professor for Software Technology at the Faculty of Management, Science and Technology of the Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL), chairing the department of Computer Science. Furthermore, he is programme leader of the OU Software Engineering Master: a top quality Master of Science ranking first in National Student Enquiries evaluations. He is also affiliated with the Radboud University in Nijmegen as a member of the Digital Security department. He has ample experience in transfer of academic knowledge as the Scientific Director of the Nijmegen Laboratory…

Bram Emmen PhD-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Bram Emmen PhD-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Bram Emmen MSc (1986) has been working as a PhD-researcher at the Cybersafety Research Group since 2017. In 2016 he completed his master's degree in Criminology at Erasmus University Rotterdam with his thesis on the possibilities and risks of big data analysis for crime prevention. In addition, he defended his thesis in Porto (Universidade do Porto) during an international criminology congress where the research was assessed with distinction. As a PhD-researcher, Bram conducts research within the multidisciplinary international research project "Police Detectives on the Tor-network" (PDTOR).…

Maarten Hoekstra lecturer/senior researcher

Maarten Hoekstra lecturer/senior researcher

Dr. Maarten Hoekstra holds a position as a lecturer and researcher at the Thorbecke Academy since the year 2010. Last year (2019) he joined the research group Cybersafety. Maarten accomplished his master in Public Administration (specialisation Organisation & Financial Management) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His special interest and expertise are within the field of Policy Evaluation. Maarten applied these preferences successfully in his PHD-research: The Contributors of the Business Case: an explorative study of the functions and the properties of a new decision makin…

Jurjen Jansen Senior researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Jurjen Jansen Senior researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Jurjen Jansen PhD (1983) is a senior researcher at the Cybersafety Research Group where he has been working since 2010. Jurjen’s work focusses on issues related to digital resilience of people and organizations. His research interests include human aspects of information security, cybercrime, victimization, human-computer interaction and behavioral change. In 2018, Jurjen obtained his PhD in "behavioral information security" at the Open University of the Netherlands. His doctoral research focused on strengthening the online resilience of end users in the context of online banking. Jurjen also…

Joyce Kerstens Associate Professor of Police, Partners and Digitization (Digital Blue)

Joyce Kerstens Associate Professor of Police, Partners and Digitization (Digital Blue)

Joyce Kerstens (1965) is Associate Professor of Police, Partners and Digitization (Digital Blue) and conducts research on cybercrime and trends in digitization, the use of digital technology by police and partners and, innovative forms of citizen participation on behalf of the detection of cybercrime. The Associate professorship is part of the Cyber Safety Research Group at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and the Police Academy. Joyce Kerstens is a sociologist with a focus on the significance of a technology-driven and data-driven environment for humans, i.e. users

Joyce obtained he…

Nicolien Kop Lecturer in Criminal Science & Crime Prevention

Nicolien Kop Lecturer in Criminal Science & Crime Prevention

Nicolien Kop is a psychologist and lecturer Crime Prevention and Criminal Science at the Police Academy in Apeldoorn. Since the early nineties she has been conducting a broad field study into and to the police, specifically into the investigation in the past fourteen years. She regularly publishes articles, books and reports on the subject. Previously she worked as a researcher at Utrecht University and the Institute of International Relations Clingendael. In 2012, she presented her public lecture: From detection to crime control.
Furthermore Nicolien is involved as co-promotor in various PhD…

Christianne de Poot Lecturer in Forensic Research and Professor of Criminalistics

Christianne de Poot Lecturer in Forensic Research and Professor of Criminalistics

Christianne de Poot (1966) is a linguïst and psychologist. She graduated with honors from the University of Nijmegen in 1990 and received her doctorate in 1996 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on a study on leading questions in interrogation situations. Her dissertation was awarded the ASPO-dissertation award.
Since then she has been carrying out and guiding empirical and experimental research in investigation processes, methods of detection and crime phenomena such a organized crime, cyber-crime and jihadist terrorism. Christianne specializes in conducting empirical and experimental socia…

Suzanna Twickler Lecturer-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Suzanna Twickler Lecturer-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

At the moment I am lecturer law and policy at NHL university of applied sciences in Leeuwarden, where I coach students in their last year of study for a bachelor in law. In this last year they have to design and perform a research in legal applied sciences. I have a legal background: I studied public administration at Bachelor level and law at the University in Groningen at Master level and worked for 25 years for several governments. In a few of these jobs I did research in public administration and law. My focus in the field of law is the enforcement of law in specific. With this last part…

Wouter Stol Cyber Safety Lector and professor of Police Studies

Wouter Stol Cyber Safety Lector and professor of Police Studies

Wouter Stol worked for the police in Amsterdam (1981 - 1992) and studied sociology (University of Amsterdam, 1984 - 1989). He received his doctorate 'Police action and Information Technology (VU, 1996). Since 1995, he has been leading a research group, successively at police advice center In-Pact (1995-2000), the Police Academy (2000-2004) and the NHL (2004-present). Dominant in his research and publications are law enforcement and new technology, focusing on digitization and cybercrime since about 1998. Wouter is currently lector on Cyber Safety at NHL and the Police Academy and professor of…

Litska Strikwerda University lecturer Faculty of Culture and Science of Law

Litska Strikwerda University lecturer Faculty of Culture and Science of Law

Litska Strikwerda (1983) works as a university lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural and legal sciences at the Open University. There she provides education and research at meta-legal level, among others in the field of cybercrime. Litska studied law at Utrecht University and Applied Ethics at the Norwegian Technical and Natural Science University (NTNU). She was previously employed at the University of Utrecht, Twente University and Loyola University (Chicago, USA). In 2014 she obtained on het thesis entitled "Virtual Acts, Real Crimes? A legal-philosophical analysis of virtual cyber-crime" fo…

Saskia Westers Lecturer-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Saskia Westers Lecturer-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Saskia Westers (1991) works as a researcher at the Cybersafety Research Group since the beginning of 2018. In 2017 she finished both her masters Psychology and Law at Maastricht University and Forensic Criminology at Leiden University. She carried out research focused on children’s eyewitness testimonies and food(in)securities of (ex-)prisoners. At the ING bank she gained working experience in the fraud department detecting and tackling fraud and scam cases.

Rogier de Groot PhD-researcher Research Group LVB en Juvenile Crime

Rogier de Groot PhD-researcher Research Group LVB en Juvenile Crime

Mr. Rogier de Groot MSc. (1980) is a doctoral researcher at the Lectureship MID and Juvenile Crime. In 2007 he graduated as a criminologist and as a criminal lawyer in 2009 in 2009 at Leiden University. From 2008 to 2010 Rogier was attached to the COT Institute for Safety and Crisis Management. Since 2010 he has worked as a lecturerer and researcher at Leiden University. As a researcher he worked on the study 'Unlimited access tot justice?', a research on victimization of people with learning disabilities in the criminal justice systems. Besides this, he coordinates the minor Working in the Y…

Trijntje Völlink University lecturer Department of Psychology

Trijntje Völlink University lecturer Department of Psychology

Since 2003 I have been working as an university lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (PenOw) of the Open University. I work in particular on course development for the Bachelor and Master and I supervise students of (Health) psychology. With regards to research, I have been actively doing research into cyberbullying with my colleague Francine DeMuth over the last ten years. In addition to various international publications and contributions to conferences I was guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Community and Social Psychology Concerning Antisocial beh…

Sipke de Vries Lecturer-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Sipke de Vries Lecturer-researcher Cybersafety Research Group

Many governments search for their authorizations in the digital environment. Municipalities are, most of the time, aware what their authorizations are in the event of physical disturbances. However, the frame is less known in terms of digital security. Sipke researches this gap, in cooperation with dr. Willem Bantema.
Sipke de Vries (1994) started working as teacher-researcher at the research group Cybersafety in 2020. He graduated at the University of Groningen, where he received his masters of law. In his thesis Sipke researched the success factors of municipal cooperation. Sipke is speciali…

Elske Posthuma teamleader Cybersafety Research Center

Elske Posthuma teamleader Cybersafety Research Center

Elske Posthuma (1989) has started working for Thorbecke Academy (NHLStenden) in 2016 as teamleader for the Cybersafety research centre and as lecturer-researcher for the Safety & Security Management educational programme. She finished her masters in Criminal Law & Criminology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen where the focus on her final research was on the criminalization of selling and receiving stolen digital goods. After graduating her masters she started working as a researcher with focus on human trafficking and its perpetrators and as a legal supporter for victims of human trafficking within the Centre of Human Trafficing (Fier Fryslan). Thereafter she worked for the local government, the township Leeuwarden as a Legal officer. Elske mainly works as a teamleader and she mostly responsible for creating and maintaining a direct link between research and education.