Grants
June 2025: We-Care grant (with Karin Gehring, Wouter de Baene, Charlotte Sleurs and Geert-Jan Rutten)
Collaboration between Tilburg University and ETZ hospital to develop app-based neurocognitive tasks for ecological momentary assessments (EMA) to capture changes in fatigue-related cognition after acquired brain injury.
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
Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, Department of cognitive neuropsychology (january 2023-now)
50% teaching: Bachelor and master theses (~15 per year), the course introduction to clinical neuropsychology, internship coordinator
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 - dec 2022).
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).