About Katherine
I'm a product manager with six years of experience in technology and an academic background spanning cognitive and occupational health psychology.
Based in the Netherlands, I bring a research-trained understanding of people to the way I frame problems and build products. Outside work, I'm an athlete, an otaku, a podcast host, and a writer.
The common thread
My path moves between understanding people and building systems for them.
Psychology taught me to ask precise questions and look past surface behavior. Product management taught me how to turn that understanding into decisions, experiences, and scalable capabilities.
Across Baidu, Kuaishou, and Keep, I have worked on both the journeys people see and the operational foundations that make those journeys possible. Moving to the Netherlands and returning to psychology widened that perspective again.
Academic foundation
Leiden, Netherlands
Occupational health, autonomy, flow, motivation, and human behavior at work—examined through research and quantitative analysis.
Hangzhou, China
Selected publication Differentiation of the Contribution of Familiarity and Recollection to the Old/New Effects in Associative Recognition: Insight from Semantic Relation Brain Sciences · 2023 Read paper ↗
Tianjin, China
Undergraduate foundation in psychological theory, research methods, and empirical study—the beginning of a lifelong relationship with the science of mind and behaviour.
Beyond the job title
Behavior, work, identity, and motivation—studied through research and everyday curiosity.
Explore ↗Strength training, CrossFit, basketball, and football keep me grounded in practice and progress.
Explore ↗Anime, games, and Japanese culture are where stories, systems, and imagined worlds meet.
Explore ↗Things I make
A podcast exploring the lives of people who took the road less travelled—rooted in psychological curiosity and a deep respect for individual stories.
A first-person analysis of structural differences between Chinese and European tech job markets—and what it really takes to cross over.
For product opportunities, interesting stories, or a conversation worth having.