PhD Supervision

PhD Candidates

• Amirhossein Mohammadi (2025-2029)
  • Project: Understanding Impossible Language Models
  • Co-supervision: With Albert Gatt, and Laurence Frank, Utrecht University.
• Timo van der Kuil (2024-2028)
  • Project: Transparent and Reproducible AI-aided Systematic Reviewing for the Social Sciences (TRASS).
  • Co-supervision: With Rens van de Schoot, Matthieu Brinkhuis, and Qixiang Fang, Utrecht University.
• Arjan van Dalfsen (2023-2026)
  • Project: Mining the Dutch disposition towards animals and plants.
  • Co-supervision: With Folgert Karsdorp and Els Stronks, Utrecht University.
• Hadi Mohammadi (2023-2026)
  • Project: Explainable natural language processing for social sciences.
  • Co-supervision: With Anastasia Giachanou and Daniel Oberski, Utrecht University.
• Paul Keuren (2023-2026)
  • Project: Knowledge-based natural language processing for real-world applications.
  • Co-supervision: With Marc Ponsen (Statistics Netherlands, CBS) and Daniel Oberski, Utrecht University.
• Niek van de Pas (2022-2026)
  • Project: Discovering Dutchness through text mining.
  • Co-supervision: With Willy Sier, Wil Pansters, and Daniel Oberski, Utrecht University.

Completed PhD

• Jelle Teijema (2022-2025)
  • Project: FAIR metadata of current and next-generation systematic reviews.
  • Co-supervision: With Rens van de Schoot, Lars Tummers, and Matthieu Brinkhuis, Utrecht University.
• Mahsa Afsharizade (2016-2021)
  • Project: Improving text summarization using deep learning and noun phrase coreference resolution.
  • Co-supervision: With Hossein Ebrahimpour, University of Kashan.

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Dr. Huyen Nguyen (2022-2024)
  • Project: Text & acoustic data mining tools to understand gender differences in debate tournament speeches and negotiation exchanges.
  • Co-supervision: With Frank van Tubergen, Utrecht University.