Marjolein de Best-Waldhober works as a scientific researcher with ECN Policy studies since September 2008. Untill 2009 she was a research associate at Leiden University, section Social an Organizational Psychology. She received graduate degrees in Social Psychology (1998, MSc, Free University in Amsterdam) and Work and Organizational Psychology (2004, PhD, University of Amsterdam). Her dissertation focused on coordination in social dilemma’s. Since then, her work mainly focuses on studying public perception, complex decision making, information and communication regarding energy technology and climate change. She has led several research projects on public perception of CCS and is a member of the C2S2RNetwork, an international network of social scientists working on public perceptions and attitudes towards CCS. At the moment, she is co-leading the NearCO2 project, a two year EU project that aims at developing and studying new participation and communication strategies for neighbours of CO2 capture and storage operations. She is furthermore leading part of the CATO2 subprogram on communication, a four year project studying trends in public opinion on CCS in the Netherlands, specifically looking at public perceptions, misconceptions and support over time and the influence of media events. Besides this, she is interested in end user decision making and behaviour. She is currently coordinating the Ideal EPBD project, a three year EU project in ten EU member states on consumer response to energy labels in buildings, which aims at the empirical analysis of consumer behaviour, barriers and policy instruments related to the EPBD

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