Research
My PhD project is focused on the subjective experience of rewards in individuals under treatment in forensic psychiatry. More specifically, we target:
Supervisors:
Dr. Inti Brazil
Dr. Roald Maes
Prof. dr. Roy Kessels
Biography
In 2006, I obtained my Masters degree in Biological and Cognitive Psychology, at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (EUR) and subsequently worked as a academic tutor and trainer in different psychology courses at EUR. After that, I was involved as a junior researcher in studies on memory in children (EUR/Unilever) and on vulnerability for substance abuse in adolescents (Erasmus Medical Centre, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). During the next three years, I was an academic teacher in the Developmental Psychology Department of Tilburg University, mainly involved in research-related courses. Since 2012, I have been carrying out my PhD project at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Centre for Cognition), in a collaboration between the Pompestichting Center for Forensic Psychiatry and the SAMBA group. Furthermore, I am a member of the Student Board of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP).
My PhD project is focused on the subjective experience of rewards in individuals under treatment in forensic psychiatry. More specifically, we target:
- Reward preferences of different forensic psychiatric populations, using a structured mixed methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative measures;
- How ecologically valid rewards with varying subjective values affect learning, decision-making and risky behavior, as well as the electrophysiological (EEG) correlates of these processes, in violent offenders with high levels of psychopathic traits.
Supervisors:
Dr. Inti Brazil
Dr. Roald Maes
Prof. dr. Roy Kessels
Biography
In 2006, I obtained my Masters degree in Biological and Cognitive Psychology, at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (EUR) and subsequently worked as a academic tutor and trainer in different psychology courses at EUR. After that, I was involved as a junior researcher in studies on memory in children (EUR/Unilever) and on vulnerability for substance abuse in adolescents (Erasmus Medical Centre, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). During the next three years, I was an academic teacher in the Developmental Psychology Department of Tilburg University, mainly involved in research-related courses. Since 2012, I have been carrying out my PhD project at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Centre for Cognition), in a collaboration between the Pompestichting Center for Forensic Psychiatry and the SAMBA group. Furthermore, I am a member of the Student Board of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP).