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Bregtje Gunther Moor
Bregtje joined the Brain and Development Lab as a PhD student in April 2007. In 2006 she received her Master’s of Science degree in Biological and Neuropsychology at Utrecht University. Within the field of neuroscience, she is mainly interested in the role of the brain in human social and emotional behavior. The primary focus of her PhD project is to study the neural substrate of social rejection in adolescence by using functional neuroimaging recordings. More specifically, she aims to discover developmental trajectories in brain regions involved in the processing of signals and feelings of social exclusion. Her project is performed under supervision of Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone and in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Maurits van der Molen at the University of Amsterdam.
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Sietske joined the B&D lab as a PhD student in September 2009. She completed the research master program at the University of Amsterdam, where she obtained experience in brain imaging research and experimental design. Her PhD research, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone, focuses on the potentials of the developing adolescent brain. Her first project concerns the development of distinct aspects of creative cognition in relation to functional brain development, in collaboration with Prof. Dr Carsten de Dreu (UvA).
Margot Schel
Margot received her MSc in Developmental Psychology at Leiden University in 2010. She started her PhD project in the B&D Lab in October 2010. Previously, she has worked on several projects in the B&D Lab as an honours bachelor student and later as a research master student. Margot’s PhD project is focused on the development of intentional inhibition in school-aged children. This project is part of a European Collaborative Research Project focused on intentional inhibition with collaborating partners form the UK (Prof. Patrick Haggard), Belgium (Dr. Marcel Brass), and Germany (Prof. Alexander Munchau). Under supervision of Prof. Eveline Crone, Margot studies the neural correlates underlying the development of intentional versus stimulus-driven (instructed) inhibition.
Barbara Braams
Barbara received her M.Sc. from the University of Amsterdam, where she has done the research master Brain and Cognitive Sciences, track Cognitive Neuroscience. During her Masters she worked on two different projects. The first project was conducted at the University of Cambridge and investigated the neural correlates of self-control. The second project investigated the effects of two emotion regulation techniques on anticipatory anxiety.
Geert-Jan Will
Geert-Jan received his MSc in Neuroscience and Cognition from Utrecht University. During his master’s he worked as a research assistant in Jack van Honk’s affective neuroscience group and investigated the role of testosterone in social decision-making. Subsequently, he conducted a study on peer pressure and moral decision-making and assisted in studies on the development of the sense of fairness at Harvard University. Geert-Jan’s PhD project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone and Dr. Berna Güroğlu, aims to merge social developmental and neuroscience perspectives in studying social interactions with peers across adolescence. The primary focus is on the development of social decision-making in peer relationships, for example in decision-making in social interactions with classmates. Behavioral experimental paradigms are combined with functional brain imaging to examine the involved neural mechanisms and relate these to brain development during adolescence.
Sabine Peters
Sabine received her Master's degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 2010 from the University of Amsterdam. During her two internships she investigated the neural basis of insomnia (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) and hippocampal volume in depression (King's College London). She also worked as an MRI-assistant in the UvA Cognitive Neuroscience group.
Bianca van den Bulk
Bianca studied psychology at Leiden University and received her M.Sc in September 2009 (research master developmental psychology). She did her internship and wrote her thesis in the Brain and Development Lab of Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone. After graduating from university, she worked as a research assistant on the EPISCA project: a longitudinal neuroimaging study in adolescents with internalizing disorders. Currently, Bianca is a PhD student on the EPISCA project. She investigates the test-re-test reliability of the paradigm used in this study (emotional faces task) and the longitudinal resting state data. Within the project there is an intensive collaboration between Curium-LUMC (coordinating institute of the study) and the B&D lab. Bianca’s project will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone and Prof. Dr. Robert Vermeiren.
Sandy Overgaauw
Sandy received her Master’s degree in Education and Child Studies (specialization: Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies) at Leiden University. In March 2011 she started as a research assistant in the Lab where she supported various researchers and PhD-students in their studies. As of January 2012 she will start a PhD-project under supervision of Eveline Crone. The purpose of this study is to understand developmental changes and individual differences in empathic concern and their relation with social behavior from a brain and behavior perspective.
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