Curriculum Vitae

Grants

  • June 2018: Young Investigators Grant, Dutch Cancer Foundation (BasMulderAward), Starting date April 2019

    • Project: “Understanding brain mechanisms of cancer-related fatigue: a sickness-behaviour approach”


Work Experience

  • Research Fellow, Radboud Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Nijmegen and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Neuroimaging.

    • Project: Understanding brain mechanisms of cancer-related fatigue: a sickness-behaviour approach (august 2019 - now).

  • Post-doctoral researcher, Universitats klinikum Essen, Klinik fur Neurologie. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Bingel.

    • Project: Appetitive and aversive conditioning: Acquisition and extinction of pain exacerbation versus pain relieve (December 2017-August 2018).

  • Post-doctoral researcher, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Neuroimaging and Expert Centre for Chronic Fatigue. Advisors: Prof. Dr. Ivan Toni and Prof. Dr. Hans Knoop.

    • Project: Neural correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome. (August 2012 - May 2017)

  • PhD Student, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Neuroimaging and Radboud Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Nijmegen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Roshan Cools.

    • Project: “Role of dopamine in reward and punishment learning” (October 2008 - 2014)

  • Research Assistant, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Neuroimaging, Prof. Dr. Roshan Cools. (April 2008 - October 2008)

  • Research Assistant, Utrecht University Medical Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Dr. N.E. van Haren, Project: “Genetic effects on structural MRI data in schizophrenia” (October 2007 - April 2008)

  • Student Assistant, Free University, Amsterdam, Drs. L. van Eggermond, Data collection, cognitive assessment in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. (February 2005 - March 2005)


Education

  • Master Neuroscience and Cognition, Cognitive neuroscience, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (2005-2007)

    • Internship: University of Utrecht, Psychonomics, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht, Dr. J.M.P. Baas. Visual Processing of Threat Stimuli and its Interaction with Attention, an EEG study (2006-2007).

    • Internship: University of Utrecht, Functional neurobiology, Helmholtz Institute, Dr. M. Raemaekers en Dr. R. van Wezel, Conscious Perception of an Ambiguous Structure from Motion Stimulus, an fMRI study (2005-2006)

  • Master Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology, Free University, Amsterdam (2000-2005)

    • Internship: GGZ-Delfland, Department of Neuropsychology, Delft, The Netherlands, Dr. M. Smit, Psycho diagnostics and Clinical Neuropsychology (2004).

    • Internship: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, Prof. L. Volicer en Prof. E.J.A. Scherder, Pain Experience and its Relation to Executive Function in Elderly with Alzheimer’s Disease (2003-2004).