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Lenferink is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente's Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), within the Psychology, Health & Technology department. They also hold senior researcher roles at Fund Victim Support and guest researcher positions at multiple institutions including University of Groningen and Aarhus University. Their research focuses on disturbed grief assessment, prediction, and treatment in adults and children following traumatic losses like homicide, MH17 disaster, and pandemic-related deaths. Key projects include developing the rouwbehandeling.nl platform and advancing ecological momentary assessment methods for grief intervention. With over 100 peer-reviewed articles, they rank third globally in prolonged grief disorder productivity per a 2023 bibliometric study.
Education and academic roles include co-promoting 6 PhD candidates and supervising postdoctoral researchers. Awards include the KNAW Early Career Award (2024) and significant research grants (e.g., NWO Veni and XS grants). They contribute to editorial boards of journals like European Journal of Psychotraumatology, lead the Dutch Society for Psychotrauma's Traumatic Grief Special Interest Group, and teach research practices in clinical psychology programs.
Research interests span grief classification, trauma recovery, and FAIR data practices. Notable studies examine grief trajectories post-MH17, pandemic bereavement impacts, and reciprocal grief-anger dynamics in legal contexts. Their work emphasizes culturally adapted interventions and improving mental health care access for bereaved populations.
