I am an Assistant Professor (UD) in Linguistics at Leiden University. My PhD concerned conditionals ('if-then sentences') in Cognitive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics — topics I continue to research this day. I have studied Media Technology (MSc), Literary Studies (MA), and (Dutch) Linguistics (MA) at Leiden University. I teach courses, courses on Linguistics, Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics and Statistics. I am the editorial secretary of the journal Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing (Amsterdam University Press), I am a board member of Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap (AVT), and I develop Gespeld, a website for practicing Dutch verb spelling. I like long-distance running (results).