Our team

Perfect Fit is a multidisciplinary collaboration between academic, public and private partners. You find all of us and what we do below.

  • Dr. Eline Meijer

    Dr. Eline Meijer

    Assistant professor / project leader, LUMC

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    Eline Meijer is Assistant professor in the LUMC and a psychologist. She is the project leader and co-promotor of PhD students Kristell Penfornis and Milon van Vliet. She has done a lot of research on smoking cessation, identify, eHealth and people with a low s

  • Dr. Anke Versluis

    Dr. Anke Versluis

    Senior researcher / project manager, LUMC

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    Anke is the project manager of Perfect Fit. She is involved in developing the content of the app, the evaluation and implementation of the app. Supervises the doctoral research of Milon (co-promotor).

  • Prof. Dr. Niels H. Chavannes

    Prof. Dr. Niels H. Chavannes

    Professor of family medicine, LUMC

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    Niels Chavannes is professor of family medicine, head of research and founder of the National eHealth Living Lab (NeLL) at the department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. Currently holding the Chair of eHea

  • Milon van Vliet, MSc

    Milon van Vliet, MSc

    PhD student, LUMC

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    Milon van Vliet is a PhD candidate at the LUMC and is mainly involved in the evaluation and implementation of the Perfect Fit app. Since we want the app to be accessible to people with a lower socio-economic position and/or eHealth literacy, an advisory board

  • Kristell Penfornis, MSc

    Kristell Penfornis, MSc

    PhD student, Leiden University

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    Doctoral research on the role of identity in smoking (cessation) and physical activity (increase). Co-develops the psychological content of the Perfect Fit app and investigates which conversational or coaching techniques are best used in the app.

  • Winifred Gebhardt, PhD

    Winifred Gebhardt, PhD

    Senior Researcher, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research & Associate Professor, Leiden University

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    Supervises Kristell’s doctoral research (first promotor). Co-develops the psychological content of the Perfect Fit app and investigates which conversational or coaching techniques are best used in the app.

  • Prof. Andrea Evers, PhD

    Prof. Andrea Evers, PhD

    Professor of Health Psychology and Scientific Director Institute of Psychology, Leiden University

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    Supervises Kristell’s doctoral research (second promotor). Co-develops the psychological content of the Perfect Fit app and investigates which conversational or coaching techniques are best used in the app.

  • Veronica Janssen, PhD

    Veronica Janssen, PhD

    GZ-Psychologist Leiden University Medical Centre and Senior Researcher at Leiden University

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    Supervises Kristell’s doctoral research. Advisory role in the development of the psychological content of the Perfect Fit app and assists in investigating which conversational or coaching techniques are best used in the app.

  • Nele Albers, MSc

    Nele Albers, MSc

    PhD student, TU Delft

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    Nele is a Ph.D. candidate at TU Delft and is responsible for developing the intelligent interaction for the virtual coach that guides people through the intervention. This includes getting user input for the system design, developing a personalized Reinforceme

  • Dr. Willem-Paul Brinkman

    Dr. Willem-Paul Brinkman

    Associate professor, TU Delft

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    Willem-Paul is an associate professor and leads the research for Perfect Fit at TU Delft. As such, he supervises the Ph.D. candidate Nele Albers. In addition, he contributes with his in-depth knowledge on behavior change support systems, especially conversatio

  • Prof. Dr. Mark A. Neerincx

    Prof. Dr. Mark A. Neerincx

    Professor Human-Centered Computing, TU Delft

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    Mark is a full professor in Human-Centered Computing at TU Delft and senior researcher at TNO Perceptual and Cognitive Systems. He supervises the Ph.D. candidate Nele Albers, and contributes with his strong expertise in fundamental and applied human-computer i

  • Sven van der Burg

    Sven van der Burg

    eScience Research Engineer

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    Sven has a background in neuroscience, software development, and artificial intelligence. In the PerfectFit project he is mainly involved in the technical implementation of the virtual coach.

  • Walter Baccinelli, PhD

    Walter Baccinelli, PhD

    Research Software Engineer, eScience Center

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    Walter obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, focusing on the design and implementation of eHealth solutions. He has experience in the development of multi-actor systems in the connected health field and his skills include softwar

  • Bouke Scheltinga, MSc

    Bouke Scheltinga, MSc

    PhD student, UT

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    My goal within perfect fit is to make sure that we can use sensor data to get insights into the physical activity of a user. This can be used to give the user personalized advice.

  • Dr. Jasper Reenalda

    Dr. Jasper Reenalda

    Associate professor, UT

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    Associate professor at the University of Twente (Biomedical Signals and Systems EEMCS) and senior researcher at Roessingh Research and Development (cluster Rehabilitation Technology, Research line Analysis of Posture and Movement) in the field of human movemen

  • Prof. Jaap Buurke

    Prof. Jaap Buurke

    Professor, UT

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    Professor at the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Twente. He is actively involved in a diversity of (inter)national projects focusing on motor control, movement analysis, rehabilitation robotics and activ

  • Prof. Joost Kok

    Prof. Joost Kok

    Professor, UT

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    Professor at the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Twente. He has extensive expertise on data science and artificial intelligence.

  • Sigrid Troelstra

    Sigrid Troelstra

    Scientific associate Tobacco, Trimbos

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    I work on several projects regard tobacco prevention and smoking cessation. My main areas of interest are e-health, smokefree organisations and prevention for youth and young adults.

Participating partners

CleVR B.V.
Z&Z
gsk
partnership stop met roken
NL Actief
Pharos
rrd
sense health
social health company
unilabs
virtuagym

Academic partners

Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum
Universiteit Leiden
Technische Universiteit Delft
Universiteit Twente
eScience Center
Trimbos