Anne Marleen is a PhD-researcher based at the University of Amsterdam and University of Antwerp, who studies embodied knowing at the intersection of performance arts, dance, design, and human–computer interaction. Her work focuses on the subtle, delicate and expressive qualities that emerge in-between artistic practice, design endeavours, and technological development.

She has presented her work at leading international venues, including IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (RO-MAN), International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), Design Research Society (DRS), and ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

In addition, she has contributed to a variety of artistic seminars and workshops at several conservatoires across the Netherlands, Austria, and the United Kingdom.

Anne Marleen is trained as an amateur mezzo soprano with opera singer and conductor Annelies Prins in Schiedam, and Lichtenberger technique with choir conductor Niels Kuijer in Rotterdam. She has participated in several inclusive dance projects at Danceable, Holland Dance Festival, and Stopgap Dance Company, as well as expressive dance in Isadora Duncan Dance.

Central to her research is regularly working together with disabled and non-disabled dance artists, musicians, and theatre performers from diverse cultural backgrounds, with whom she explores digital-physical realities, to understand how cultural connotations and vocabularies influence the in-between of knowledge domains. During her work, she takes on multiple roles, from being passive observant to active creator in the artistic process.

By foregrounding embodied practice, Anne Marleen challenges dominant paradigms and creates alternative pathways and perspectives on expression, access, and co-creation in hybrid performance environments.

Anne Marleen holds a master at Delft University of Technology, where she was trained in Architecture and Industrial Design Engineering. This foundation informs her transdisciplinary approach, together with her 10+ years of experience as a design educator at Dutch and Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences.

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