Dr. Brenda Berendsen is assistant professor at the department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, at Maastricht University. She has expertise in the field of activity monitoring and health promotion. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of physical activity behavior on health, and translation of these fundamental findings in effective and sustainable interventions. She uses techniques like accelerometry, intervention design, technology acceptance, implementation mapping, and qualitative data collection; and study designs include both intervention studies as cohort data. Brenda works in several transdisciplinary collaborations to have an impact on actual daily physical activity behaviour of patients and citizens.