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My research investigates how behavior and decision making changes during acute illness and fatigue, what neural and immuno-biological mechanisms are involved, and how this might explain the development of long-term persisting fatigue  symptoms, focusing on both mild fatigue and brain fog symptoms and severe debilitating mental exhaustion  that can develop after medical treatments or infectious disease.  

With a background in both clinical neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience I aim to build bridges between cognitive neurosciences, medical sciences and clinical practice. I strive to increase our mechanistic understanding of neural mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits and  fatigue in medical diseases to ultimately improve its assessment, pharmacological and behavioural treatment. To this end I study the role of immune-brain interactions in the emergence and maintenance of cognitive symptoms and fatigue after disease. 

For this I assess neuroimaging  and cognitive function after  immune and pharmacological manipulations in healthy populations and link neuroimaging, cognitive function and  blood markers  in various patient populations with fatigue-related symptoms.