Annet de Lange - Chair, Research Forum

Annet studied Psychology at Utrecht University from 1995 to 1999 and specialised in PAGO (Psychology of Work, Health and Organizations). She continued her career as a PhD-student at the department of Work and Organizational Psychology of the University of Nijmegen. This PhD study concerned a prospective cohort study in collaboration with TNO Work and Employment; titled SMASH (i.e. Study on Musculoskeletal Disorders, Absenteeism, Stress, and Health). From 2003-2006 she worked as an Assistant Professor human resource management/organizational behavior at the department of Business Administration of the Vrije university of Amsterdam. In 2006 she started working as an Associate professor bachelor program at the university of Groningen. In her current position she coordinates the bachelor program in psychology, is member of several educational boards and lectures on diversity in organisations, work-related stress and research methods. Her research interests include longitudinal research, causal relations between work and mental health, and the impact of working life on the health and motivation of older workers.

Annet is keen to use her tenure as Chair of the Research Forum to increase the communication and interaction between occupational health researchers in Europe (and further); by organising a research workshop at each Academy conference, and by trying to organise new (financial) incentives or platforms for further collaboration between European occupational health researchers.