Anne Marleen Olthof (academic researcher & classical singer) is a full-time PhD-researcher at the University of Amsterdam and University of Antwerp, and received a scholarship from the Dutch Research Council. Anne Marleen studies how to design with the body, through somatic ways of knowing at the intersection of artistic and academic research. She regularly cooperates with disability artists and performers, musicians and dancers of diverse abilities to study how alternative paradigms for health and well-being can be established for human-computer relationships .

Atelier & Performance 🪡✂️
Outside of academia, Anne Marleen is vocationally trained in opera singing by qualified classical soloist Annelies Prins, who is also conductor of the Rotterdam Opera Choir. Anne Marleen practices integrated dance at Holland Dance Danceable, led by qualified classical dancer, teacher & choreographer Yolanda van der Heijden. She regularly takes part in Isadora Duncan exploration classes by New York- based Francesca Todesco.
Anne Marleen receives sewing classes from Denise Beeckmans, an experienced Dutch-Flemish seamstress in Schiedam.

Educational Experience ✍🏻📚 🔮🪄
Anne Marleen is of Dutch origin and received her academic education at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Anne Marleen Olthof has taught at University of Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology, and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. Anne Marleen is a guest lecturer at Fachhochschule Kufstein, Austria, and has been part of a European accreditation team at the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation, AQ Austria.

For inquiries, please contact me via email at a.m.olthof@uva.nl

1st promotor
Prof. dr. Somaya Ben Allouch
 - University of Amsterdam
Human-System Interaction for Health and Wellbeing

2nd promotor
Prof. dr. ir. Jouke Verlinden - University of Antwerp
Augmented Fabrication, Design Research