Kort CV

Klein combined studies in educational and child Sciences and Psychology. She obtained three Master's degrees in Clinical Orthopedagogy, Developmental Psychology and a two-year Research Master at Radboud University. She completed her PhD, Cum Laude at the same university, focusing on childhood anxiety (Supervisors: Prof. Mike Rinck, Prof. Eni Becker, Prof Susan Bögels). During her PhD project, she worked intensively with Prof Ron Rapee and Prof Jennifer Hudson and their group. She worked part of her time in their lab at the Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

After her PhD, she worked as a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam where she led a large project with Prof. Reinout Wiers and Mr. Peter Vonk on the effectiveness of an online CBT treatment for students with anxiety and/or depressive symptoms. In 2016, she received a Niels Stensen Fellowship, which enablked her to conduct two years of research at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, in the lab of Prof. Silvia Schneider. In 2018, Klein received a prestigious 5-year ZonMw postdoc fellowship to further shape her own research line and research group. In 2019, Klein came to Leiden with her research group. She works here as an associate professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Her research focuses on the transmission of anxiety from parents to their children, and the treatment of internalizing problems across the life course.