Marjolein de Best-Waldhober works as a scientific researcher with ECN Policy studies since September 2008. Since November 2012, she also works as a senior researcher at Leiden University, section Social an Organizational Psychology, where she worked as a postdoc from 2004 to 2009. 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 dilemmas. Since then, her work mainly focuses on studying public perception, participation, complex decision making, and communication regarding energy technology and climate change. She has led several national and international research projects on public perception of and participation in energy technology and is a founding member of the IEA GHG SRN, an international network of social scientists studying the public and CCS. She coordinated the NearCO2 project, an FP7 project for new communication and participation strategies for neighbours of CCS operations. At the moment, besides being involved in several international projects, she is leading the subprogram on public perception of the Dutch national CCS program, CATO2. She is also leading part of this subprogram, a five 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 coordinated the recently completed 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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