Anne Looijmans

Dr. Anne Looijmans is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Medical Sciences. Her work focuses on caregiver support systems, digital health interventions, and palliative care. She leads the MantelzorgBalans project, developing tools to reduce caregiver burden, and has secured funding from ZonMw and the EU Horizon 2020 program (ENTWINE consortium). She co-supervised PhD candidates including Srishti Dang and Simon Spahrkäs, and has published extensively on caregiver experiences and cancer-related fatigue interventions.

• Key Projects:
• MantelzorgBalans tool implementation (2024-2026)
• ENTWINE: EU-funded caregiver intervention network (2019-2023)
• Untire App trial for cancer patients
• Funding: ZonMw grants 844001404 and 10200012320019, EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant 814072

Research Interests: Caregiver support, palliative care, digital health solutions, cancer patient care, and mental health management. She has supervised over 10 master's students and contributed to 18 peer-reviewed publications.