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Multimedia-minded
Wiradhany, Wisnu
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Acknowledgments
You! You have reached the acknowledgments section of this thesis. Perhaps you have read (parts) of the thesis? Thank you. Perhaps this page was the fi rst one you look for? Also, thank you! The book you are holding right now should exemplify my best works, so far. I hope you enjoyed reading it.
The training period to become a scientist is a long one. In my case, it took about 11 years. I had spent the last four of those 11 for this PhD project, and I am grateful to have met some amazing people who have been there in my ups and downs. In Indonesia (or somewhere in Asia), we say that it takes a village to raise a child. The following pages are a tribute to my villagers.
The fi rst part belongs to the people who oversee(saw) my works in the village. Mark, thank you for the detailed and sometimes overwhelming amount of feedback you gave. I do learn a lot from you, no matter I sometimes hate the process, and I love you like a brother. I hope both of us have learned much in this process. Ritske, thank you for giving me the op-portunity to do a PhD here, and for your nice comments (the one I remembered the most, from when I did my masters was “Not everything has to be diffi cult”). Susanne, thank you for giving me one of the fi rst opportunities to do a collaborative project. Janneke, thanks for your patience in helping me organizing and re-organizing the meta-analytic results. Sebastiaan, thanks for teaching me about eye tracking and pupillometry, and for programming an appli-cation that I can actually use once I return to Indonesia to continue doing research. Marieke, thanks for your patience and our discussions on mind-wandering. I also would like to thank the members of the assessment committee, the PhD examining committee, and the contrib-utors for the symposium: Anthony Wagner, Casper Albers, Dick de Waard, Hilde Voorveld, Kevin Madore, Jesper Aagaard, Niels Taatgen, and Susanne Baumgartner.
At the end of my working days, I return to a hut that belongs to me and my signifi cant other. No matter how diffi cult my day is, Astin is there to listen and to share her stories with me. You are always here for me, fi guratively and these days physically, and I cannot be happier after you decided to also do your PhD in the Netherlands.
At working days, I shared my working hut with two amazing people. Nadine and Tineke have provided both emotional and social supports in most days. You are quick in telling me to do things that I say do not particularly enjoy but would enjoy nonetheless (socializing, trying something new). You are also quick in correcting me whenever I did something wrong. I hope
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that I do not become too reliant on you. I hope you will still be fi guratively there, in years to come. And thanks for organizing the party!
The little time I spent for socializing had been a blast thanks to my PhD cohort from E and the Minnaars en minaressen group. Thank you Atser, Aytac, Edyta, Michael, Florian, Berry, Sanne, Marlon, Enja, Annika, Jefta, Anne-Marthe, Aafke, Jolien, Maja, Julia, Felicity, Tomas, Kim, Susie, Marloes, and Rob. Rob, if you are reading this, things are okay, and things will be okay. Watch out for the lizard people, though. Thank you, Peter (and Nina), Wanja, and Mattia for becoming my fi rst friends after I started moving to the Netherlands. Thank you for the E-staff s for being so accommodating and supporting during my working days. Libbe, thank you for our afternoon talks.
Before I moved to the Netherlands, I came from another village. I remember my fi rst academic advisor, Lyly Puspa (now I am somewhat one, too; this academic advising thing is diffi cult!) from my Bachelor days. Clara Ajisuksmo, Neila Ramdhani, and Johana Hadiyono also convinced me to pursue a career in science. I think it kinda worked. Neila, especially, encouraged me to study abroad and accommodated my fi rst opportunity to do so. Thank you. Johana, thank you especially for introducing me to Astin. Also, thank you, my parents, Zanny Nagasena and Melania Chandra for your trust. We had not been this physically far before, and it must have been as diffi cult, if not more diffi cult for you to be apart from your only child for so long. Lastly, my PhD project had become a reality thanks to the scholarship I received from the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP). Without it, I would not even be able to aff ord to eat (and to have a roof over my head). Thank you, LPDP and Indonesian taxpayers!
Tomorrow, I will partly move to another village. I am excited to fi nd future opportuni-ties in my collaboration project with Jeremy, and to continue working at the teaching depart-ment of this university. The journey has not ended yet, but the part that has been over had contributed greatly to my personal growth. Forward!
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Biography
Wisnu Wiradhany was born in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 5, 1987. He fi nished his BSc in Psychology at Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta in 2010. In 2011, he enrolled in the MA program in Psychology at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, which he fi nished in 2014. He moved to the Netherlands for the fi rst time in 2013, upon receiv-ing an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to partake in an exchange program with University of Groningen. In 2015, he started his PhD project on media multitasking at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Science and the Research School of Behavioural Cognitive Neuroscience of the University of Groningen. This project was fully funded by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia. He is currently working in the Teaching Unit of the Psychology Department at the University of Groningen.
