Katharina is a PhD candidate at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and is affiliated with University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). She holds a Master’s degree in Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology from the University of Groningen. Katharina’s doctoral research focuses on life-course transitions during older adulthood, such as retirement, and their influence on objective health outcomes. She will analyze data from Lifelines to answer her research questions. Lifelines is a large population-based prospective cohort study with a biobank and databank that includes information about over 167.000 participants from the northern Netherlands.
October 2024 she successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Metabolic syndrome and employment exit: Longitudinal findings from the Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank‘ at the University of Groningen.
Affiliations
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)
Expertise
Organizational psychology, life-course transitions during older adulthood, and objective health outcomes
