Coyan Tromp is curriculum developer and assistant professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Amsterdam.

In 2007, she stood at the cradle of the bachelor programme Future Planet Studies, which integrates scientific and societal perspectives to tackle large‑scale and inherently complex, ‘wicked’ problems such as climate change, global resource challenges, and the energy transition. Based on her involvement in UvA’s Research Priority Area on the Energy Transition through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (ENLENS), she also designed an interdisciplinary elective and honours course which incorporates the latest research insights on that issue. In her book Wicked Philosophy (2018) she sketches a potential overarching framework for a philosophy of science and vision development for such complex problems. And she continues to initiate and participate in various sustainability projects, at both bachelors’ and masters’ level, for all faculties of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). 

In her role as lecturer she has been coordinating and teaching courses on Philosophy of Science, project-based courses such as the Reflexive Design Project, Future Planet Project and Scenario Planning. She has also designed and given workshops on 21^st Century Skills and Systems Thinking.

As Education Research Fellow she has investigated the potential of rubrics as means to integrate learning and assessment, and experimented with innovative pedagogical concepts such as blended learning, flipped classroom and global classroom, and laid down these experiences in scientific publications.

As assessment expert, she actively explores the implications of AI for academic education. In her recently developed honors course AIducation - The Future of Education? she challenges students to design academic courses that are fit for the future. She shares these experiences in the Faculty of Science's Assessment Network which she forms part of.

In the past, she has been involved in international comparative research on the influence of futures thinking on environmental policies.

In the early days of her professional career she worked as consultant and researcher in the fields of social work, employees’ councils and labour reintegration, experimenting with inter- and transdisciplinary research. Meanwhile she was teaching philosophy of science and methodology at the University of Utrecht, specifically action related methodologies (e.g. intervention, implementation and evaluation research), and writing a dissertation about the underlying philosophy of such action oriented types of research. After her PhD, she worked at the National Expertise Centre for Social Intervention, coordinating and lecturing within the curriculum of the professional Master Social Intervention. During this time she was also editor of the scientific journals of Labour & Participation and Social Intervention.