Jolene completed a Bachelor in Psychology (2008), Honoursprogram (2008), and Research master cognitive and clinical neuroscience – Track psychopathology (2010) at Maastricht University. Jolene obtained her PhD and completed a 2-year postdoc at Ghent University (Belgium), focusing on how the social context (e.g., parents) can foster or thwart individuals’ basic psychological needs as stated within the Self-Determination Theory and how this relates to, for instance, individuals’ well-being, motivation, and emotion regulation. In 2013, she also completed a 1-year program on Forensic behavioral sciences. In 2020, Jolene started working as an Associate Professor (tenure-track) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), studying the proactive role young adults can play in shaping their emotional experiences and how this can be fostered by parents, thereby also relying on longitudinal data from the Trondheim Early Secure Study (TESS). Jolene is also an associate editor at Frontiers - Personality and Social Psychology (specialty section in Psychology). She also works as a lecturer at Utrecht University within the department of Clinical Psychology, where she enthusiastically supervises master thesis students.