I am an assistant professor in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Psychology at Leiden University and principal investigator at the CoDAP lab. My work lies at the intersection between developmental cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. A key denominator of my work is employing a multi-method approach - combining behavioral and neuroimaging assessments, as well as advanced statistical methods. I aim at discovering reliable transdiagnostic markers that will aid in understanding the etiology of psychological disorders

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I am a PhD candidate for the Developmental and Educational Psychology at Leiden University and enthusiastic member of the CoDAP lab. My PhD project (i.e., the Changing Minds project), funded by an NWO Research Talent grant, aims to identify subgroups of people, characterized by similarities in personality, environmental, physiological and behavioral responses in various social contexts. These subgroups, or ‘symptom-profiles’ should help indicate who is at risk for developing social anxiety disorder in adolescence. I am particularly interested in examining potential differences in a brain mechanism involved during social learning and behavioral responses to uncertain social situations.

I am a Ph.D. candidate for the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit at Leiden University and a member of the CoDAP lab. I received my MSc in developmental psychopathology from Durham University and a BSc in mathematics from Purdue University. My Ph.D. project focuses on investigating the functional brain network changes during reinforcement learning in socially anxious individuals. I am interested in using machine learning methods to examine this learning process and I hope to provide insights into the mechanisms underlying the cognitive biases in social anxiety.

I am a research collaborator in the CoDAP lab and a PhD candidate in the Clinical Psychology unit at Leiden University. I received my M.Sc. (Research) in Developmental Psychology from Leiden University and hold a B.A. in Psychology from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. In the CoDAP lab, I work on the Changing Minds project, and I am interested in understanding the mechanisms involved in feedback processing and learning in social evaluative contexts. As part of the interdepartmental Social Resilience and Security Program, my PhD project - co-supervised by Prof. Ellen de Bruijn, Dr. Anna van Duijvenvoorde, and Dr. Henk van Steenbergen - will focus on the relationship between resilience, uncertainty, and cognitive flexibility.

I am a  student from the Clinical Adolescent Psychology Master at Leiden University and I am carrying out my master thesis project within the Changing Minds project. My research interests include the fields of Clinical Neuropsychology and Developmental Psychology. The Changing Minds project allows me to study the neurophysiological and behavioral effects of performance-related feedback in people with different levels of social anxiety. 

I am doing my Master's thesis internship at CoDAP lab, focusing on analyzing EEG-derived brain functional connectivity in the context of feedback learning. I am a Systems Biology Master's student at Maastricht University and got my Bachelor's degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from the same university. My research focus will be to use data science techniques to explore the differences in functional brain connectivity during feedback learning, considering social anxiety symptoms. This will hopefully provide more insight into the differences in physiological mechanisms underlying social anxiety.

I am a student of the School Psychology Master at Leiden University. I did the bachelor applied psychology at the Applied University in Leiden with a specialization in developmental psychology. I am very interested in the development of children and adolescents in schools and the dynamics they have with their peers. Following on from this, I think it is important that every child has the opportunity to develop its potential. I do research within the Changing Minds Project for my master’s thesis. I want to investigate the behavioral effects of performance-related feedback and social feedback. Hopefully I can use my findings and translate this into practice.