# Joost van de Brake > Researcher and consultant on modern teamwork. Studies and advises on multiple team membership, hybrid work, team collaboration, and the stress and strain of modern team arrangements. Associate Professor and Research Director of the Organizational Behaviour programme at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business. NWO Veni laureate (2022). Based in Groningen, the Netherlands. ## Core expertise Joost van de Brake helps organisations make sense of modern teamwork. His core expertise covers: - **Multiple team membership**. How employees experience and perform when they belong to several teams at the same time, and how organisations can design work to make these arrangements sustainable. - **Hybrid and remote work**. When work-from-home arrangements help or harm individuals and teams, and how unit-level remote-work configurations affect psychological safety, coordination, and performance. - **Team collaboration and design**. Within-team dynamics of status, identity, and role allocation, and across-team dynamics of multiteam systems, collaboration networks, and boundary spanning. - **Stress and strain at work**. How status inconsistencies, role configurations, and demanding teamwork generate exhaustion, and how emotional exhaustion crosses over along collaboration networks. - **Engagement and burnout**. Measurement and diagnosis with rigorous surveys and big-data analyses, plus translation into actionable interventions. ## Practical work with organisations Past and current partners cover several sectors: applied research institutes (including an 8+ year partnership), hospitals, energy and infrastructure companies, national healthcare bodies, municipalities, public-sector agencies, banks, and ministries. He runs employee surveys, designs experiments and pilots, trains leaders, and advises on hybrid work and multiple team membership. ## Key publications - Van de Brake, H. J., Van der Vegt, G. S., and Essens, P. (2024). More than just a number: Different conceptualizations of multiple team membership and their relationships with emotional exhaustion and turnover. *Journal of Applied Psychology*, 109(5), 714 to 729. - Van de Brake, H. J., and Berger, S. (2023). Can I leave my hat on? A cross-level study of multiple team membership role separation. *Personnel Psychology*. - Berger, S., Van de Brake, H. J., and Bruch, H. (2022). Resource leverage, resource depletion: A multilevel perspective on multiple team membership. *Journal of Applied Psychology*. - Van de Brake, H. J., Walter, F., Rink, F. A., Essens, P., and Van der Vegt, G. S. (2020). Benefits and disadvantages of individuals' multiple team membership: The moderating role of organizational tenure. *Journal of Management Studies*. - Van de Brake, H. J., Walter, F., Rink, F. A., Essens, P., and Van der Vegt, G. S. (2018). The dynamic relationship between multiple team membership and individual job performance in knowledge-intensive work. *Journal of Organizational Behavior*. - Wörtler, B., Van de Brake, H. J., and Van der Vegt, G. S. (2025). Crossover of emotional exhaustion in collaboration networks: The roles of hindrance stressors and organisational tenure. *Work and Stress*. ## Grants and recognition - NWO Veni grant (2022, €280,000) on multiple team membership, from the Dutch Research Council under the Talent Programme. - ZonMw COVID-19 grant (2020, €200,000) on hospital-staff well-being during the pandemic. - Fulbright Scholarship (2016) supporting a research visit at the Duke Network Analysis Center. - Academy of Management Best Paper Award (2025), OB Division. - Academy of Management Best Reviewer Award (2024 and 2025). - FEB Early Career Research Award, University of Groningen (2021). - Journal of Organizational Behavior Best Paper Award, runner-up (2018). ## Roles and service - Associate Professor (Universitair Hoofddocent), Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen. - Research Director of the Organizational Behaviour programme. - Associate Editor, *Group and Organization Management*. - Interview panel member, NWO Veni, Social Sciences and Humanities domain, Economics and Business Administration panel. ## Contact - Email: - Office: Nettelbosje 2, 9747 AE Groningen, Netherlands - UG profile: - Pure: - Google Scholar: - ORCID: - LinkedIn: ## Languages English and Dutch (native).