Main Focus
- reinforcement learning and decision-making
- habitual and goal-directed control of behavior
- compulsivity in e.g. obesity and addiction
- the role of dopamine in compulsive behavior
- the mechanisms of mindfulness
- behavioral paradigms, neuroimaging (fMRI), interventions (pharmacological, behavioral)
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, IFB
AdiposityDiseases, Leipzig University - Medical Center, and guest
researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, Junior Research Group 'Decision-making in Obesity' (Dr.
Annette Horstmann).
2012–2016
PhD candidate, Donders
Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Prof. Dr.
Roshan Cools & Dr. Esther Aarts). Thesis: Breaking Bad Habits - A
meditation on the neurocognitive mechanisms of compulsive behavior.
2011-2012
Research
Assistant, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the
Netherlands (Prof. Dr. Roshan Cools & Dr. Guillaume Sescousse).
Topic: Gambling and dopamine - A pharmacological fMRI study.
2009-2011
Master
degree in Cognitive Neuroscience (cum laude), Radboud University,
Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Thesis: State-dependent processing of tactile
stimuli in rat barrel cortex.
2006-2009
Bachelor degree in Psychobiology (cum laude), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Thesis: On motor imagery.