Consortium
Stichting Trimbos (The Netherlands)
Sigrid Troelstra
Dr. Sigrid Troelstra obtained a master’s degree in Management, Policy analysis and Entrepreneurship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with specializations in health policy and international public health. In her PhD-thesis she evaluated the effects of smoking cessation policies and interventions at national and local levels, including occupational settings. Sigrid is currently working as a senior researcher at the Netherlands Expertise Center for Tobacco control at the Trimbos Institute. She is the project leader of the implementation site in the Netherlands.
Luis Alejandro Rodríguez
Prof. Marc Willemsen is endowed professor in Tobacco Control Research at Maastricht University and head of the tobacco control department at the Trimbos Institute. Marc is a national and international expert on smoking cessation and (effectiveness of) tobacco control. He published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is author of the book on tobacco policy making “Tobacco control policy in the Netherlands: between economy, public health, and ideology.”
Carmen Voogt
Dr. Carmen Voogt earned her master’s degree in Public Health & Society at Wageningen University & Research. She completed her PhD that focused on the effectiveness of a web-based brief alcohol intervention entitled ‘What Do You Drink’ in reducing heavy drinking among adolescents and young adults. She then started her postdoctoral research on the influence of parental alcohol use on alcohol-related cognitions of children (4-8 years old). Currently, she works as project leader of the Expertise center on Alcohol of the Trimbos Institute.
Willeke van Dijk
Dr. Willeke van Dijk holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology. During her PhD she developed and evaluated an eHealth intervention using heart rate variability biofeedback (HRV-BF) to reduce stress and support smoking cessation among pregnant women. She is currently a researcher at the Netherlands Expertise Center for Tobacco Control at the Trimbos-institute and is actively involved in the PIECES project.
