My published research focuses on the effect of the indoor environment (specifically heat) on heuristics and cognitive performance, as well as investigates the behavioral response to the COVID-19 recommendations to avoid crowded places. 

Does working from home work? 

That depends on the home. Working from home productivity depends on satisfaction with the home office climate (e.g. noise and temperature) and the hardware (e.g. chair and screen). Seemingly unbeknownst to the workers, however, opening a window improves satisfaction in both domains. 

A well-ventilated home office makes for a happy and productive worker!

Wrongly recollecting your work-from-home productivity

... can have serious implications for all work-from-home strategies and policies. I show that for multiple work factors over time, during the turbulent COVID-19 period, people tend to anchor on the 'now' when they are trying to remember how WFH worked out. The working-from-home literature blindly relies heavily on self-reported retrospective WFH evaluations, without questioning its real validity.  

Avoiding Crowded Places During COVID-19

... is only possible with more up-to-date information. Strategic decision-making motivates most people to go when they expect others to stay home, inevitably leading to failure to avoid crowdedness. 

Turning Up the Heat

...makes specifically men complain about the heat, and predict their performance will suffer, even though they are not actually performing worse. 

Current working papers examine the degree in which (environmental) factors appear to influence working from home productivity versus factors that really influence productivity. Moreover, I redeveloped and validated a productivity questionnaire to do so. Second, recollection accuracy of productivity during COVID-19 is examined. Furthermore, I lead an exploratory investigation to assess the human ability to assess risk in networks.

Bounded Rationality in Social Network Analysis 

... is suggested by our observation that people use relatively easily assessable physical characteristics of a network. The often-complex mental calculation of objective risk dispersion in networks is substituted by a heuristics-driven approach. 

Measuring Work-from-Home Productivity and Stress

... is needed to investigate and evaluate the move to home using productivity on multiple domains. I restructure, validate, and test the retest-reliability a previously validated productivity scale. Additionally, I examine and discuss the performance of simple single-item alternatives.

Current projects focus real-world impact: measuring the impact of social performance of the ESG domain as well as exploring the behavior of individual agents given the uncertain climate context in real estate. 

Measuring Real World Impact of Social Performance...

... means pioneering to understand the impact buildings have on the health, well-being, and productivity of the people working and living in them,

as well as the (nearby) communities that are exposed to buildings. Using a self-constructed framework , I collect unique primary data in the field to enable financial performance analysis.