Dr. Eline Heppe has gained extensive experience studying people with sensory impairments. She is a senior researcher at the Royal Kentalis Academy and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and program leader of deafblind research studies in the Dutch expertise program Deelkracht [“Shared Force”]. Eline supervises multiple research projects focusing on people with deafblindness. In all of these projects she is working closely together with people with lived-experience and care professionals. She is the project leader of a project in which the Dutch functional definition of deafblindness is developed and a project in which a psychosocial support program for families with Usher is studied. She also leads multiple research projects focusing on the labour participation of people with hearing and/or visual impairments. Her work has resulted in many national and international publications, presentations, and collaborations.