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CORE
TEAM
Lina Al-Hassany
Lina Al-Hassany is a psychiatry resident and PhD candidate at Erasmus MC. She combines clinical practice with research on the impact of menstruation and hormonal fluctuations on mental and social well-being among adolescents and young adults. In addition to her medical work, she is actively involved in literary and cultural organizations. Through her work, she seeks to connect psychiatry, education, research and societal engagement, with particular attention to stigma, gender-sensitive care, and meaningful youth participation.
Kamil Hiralal
I am a PhD fellow working within the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology department of the Erasmus Medical Centre. I have completed a research master in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences at Leiden University. My current research focusses on children with rare genetic variants and autism spectrum disorder. Additionally, I am interested in applying Big Data techniques to discover hidden patterns in phenotypical data of ASD patients.
I co-organize the Rotterdam RIOT Science Club meetings at the Erasmus Medical Centre.
Laura Monteiro Rente Dias
I am a PhD candidate working at the BIGR group of the Erasmus Medical Center. I have a MSc in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics from the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, and my research focuses on the development of AI models for the early detection of Frontotemporal dementia using liquid and imaging biomarkers within the PREDICTFTD consortium. Additionally, I co-organise the Rotterdam RIOT Science Club meetings at Erasmus Medical Centre.
REPRESENTATIVES
Julius März
I am a Ph.D.-candidate at the department of Child and Adolescence Psychiatry at Erasmus MC Rotterdam. I obtained my Psychology Research Master´s degree at the University of Amsterdam, with a specialization in Clinical and Social Psychology. The focus of my current research is the usage of Ecological Momentary Assessment to evaluate the negative effects of daily life stress on mental health in children and adolescents. Furthermore, I am interested in the rise of science skepticism, as well as in early detection of affective disorders and psychosis. I am also a former member of the Student Initiative for Open Science (SIOS) in Amsterdam.
Jarinne Woudstra-de Jong
I am a PhD candidate in the Rotterdam Eye Hospital and Erasmus MC’s department of Medical Psychology. I studied Medical Psychology, Healthcare Management and Health Sciences at Tilburg University and Erasmus University Rotterdam. My current research focuses on the quality-of-life impact of different eye conditions, specifically diseases of the retina and vitreous. We are developing new patient-reported instruments through computerized-adaptive testing to measure disease burden and treatment burden. Regarding RIOT, I am specifically interested in transparent data management and regulations for non-WMO research.
Viktoria Ehret
I work as an Imaging Data Steward in the Imaging Office of BIGR at Erasmus Medical Center. I hold a PhD in Medical Physics (Deuterium MR Spectroscopy) from the Medical University of Vienna. In times of rising skepticism toward science, I believe it is essential to make the practice of science more visible and accessible. Research should be understandable beyond disciplinary boundaries and beyond academia, and it should be shared in a way that allows others to reproduce results and to consider failure as a source of learning. With the RIOT, I want to encourage a culture of exchange, transparency, and open discussion around scientific research.
Rick Borstov
Rick Bortsov is a researcher in the field of trustworthy AI for medical image analysis. They are interested in the interplay between academia and unjust and harmful power relations, such as colonialism, cisheteropatriarchy, racism, ableism, and others. They seek to understand how academia contributes to these power relations, how they are replicated within academia, and how these power hierarchies can instead be undermined, within academia and between academia and the rest of the world.
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Marit Broer
My name is Marit Broer, and I started my PhD at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology department in July 2025. My research focuses on early stressful life events and their impact on the development, progression, and severity of psychopathology later in life, particularly in children who have a parent with a severe mental illness. I work with detailed longitudinal data on life events, which allows me to explore many different aspects of risk and resilience. For example, why is it that two siblings who experience similar life events can have vastly different outcomes—such as one developing depression while the other does not?
Before starting my PhD, I worked as a research assistant at the same department for two years. This is when I first met the RIOTs, and I haven’t missed a talk since. I always enjoy learning about others’ experiences with open science and am therefore thrilled to join the RIOTs. I look forward to many inspiring and necessary conversations about open science and to helping spread the word on doing responsible research.
SENIOR AMBASSADORS
Neeltje van Haren
Senior Representative
Aleksandra Badura
Senior Representative
Arfan Ikram
Senior Representative
Former members
OTHER SITES
Samuel Westwood
Marion Criaud
Ellie Hassan
Olivia Kowalczyk
Sheut-Ling Lam
Alexandra Lautarescu
João Mineiro
Nadia Soliman
Chris Albertyn
Miguel Xochicale
Manpal Bhogal
Giulio Centorame
Sarah Charles
Robbie Clark
Tamara Kalandadze
Ian Lahart
Thuy-vy Nguyễn
Anders Nordahl-Hansen
Hugo Pedder
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