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With a background in both clinical neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience I aim to build bridges between cognitive neurosciences, medical sciences and clinical practice. I strive to increase our mechanistic understanding of neural mechanisms underlying fatigue-related symptoms and cognitive difficulties in medical diseases to ultimately improve its pharmacological and behavioural treatment and prevention.

To this end I study the role of immune-brain interactions in the emergence and maintenance of fatigue relation symptoms and cognitions after disease. For this I combine neuroimaging with immune, pharmacological and behavioural manipulations in both healthy populations and (longitudinal) patient studies, using both lab based and online (experience sampling) methods.

I teach the course "Brain Dysfunction", 2nd year LAS bachelor

Bachelor and master projects include: 

- Sick for science: investigating individual variation in sickness symptoms during an acute systemic immune challange (Lipopolysacharide)

- Cancer-related fatigue - A sicknes behaviour approach: Investigating fatigue as a change in motivational decision making in testicular cancer survivors.