Teaching
For me, teaching is one of the most rewarding aspects of being an academic. I especially enjoy teaching mathematical biology and statistics, topics that are both beautiful in their own right and also lend themselves well to help students develop the ability to think critically, rigorously, and quantitatively.
Past teaching (Princeton)
As a lecturer in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department, I designed a new course EEB355, Statistics for Biologists, and taught it in Spring 2024 and Spring 2025. See the advertisement for the first iteration of the course below:
In Fall 2024, I also taught EEB325, Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Medicine.
As a graduate student at Princeton (2018-2023), I was an Assistant in Instruction for four undergraduate courses in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department:
- 2021: EEB325, Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Medicine
- 2020: EEB325, Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Medicine
- 2019: EEB380, Ecology and Conservation of African Landscapes
- 2018: EEB311, Animal Behavior
In 2022, I was recognized with a Graduate Teaching Award for my teaching at Princeton.
From 2022, I also served as Graduate Teaching Fellow, a role which involves training first-time graduate Assistants in Instruction.
In 2022, I co-taught a community-level course in human biology to incarcerated students through the Prison Teaching Initiative.
Past teaching (Utrecht)
At Utrecht (2011-2018), I was a teaching assistant for various undergraduate courses in the mathematics and biology departments:
- 2017: Introduction to geometry
- 2016: Group theory
- 2016: Mathematical statistics
- 2015: Measure and integration
- 2014: Experiment and statistics
- 2014: Mathematical statistics
- 2013: Applied biostatistics
- 2013: Systems biology
Other teaching
From 2012-2019, I was a coach in the Dutch Mathematical Olympiad program.