dr. KT (Kirsten) Verkooijen

Kirsten Verkooijen is associate professor at the chair group Health and Society. She studied Health Sciences at Maastricht University and specialized in the topics Health Education & Health Promotion and Mental Health Sciences. She wrote her PhD-dissertation on the role of identity in health risk behaviour in adolescence at the University of Southern Denmark. Her current research deals with psychosocial determinants and outcomes of health behaviour with a special focus on physical activity and vulnerable groups.