Nicole Vissers (BSc Biomedical Sciences)
Graduated 2021
PhD candidate at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in London
"I had the chance to work on my own project and study part of the neural circuitry involved in visually evoked freezing and escape behaviours. At the end of my internship, I was invited to continue to work on the project as a PhD student."
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Simon Poortman (BSc Psychology)
Graduated 2019
PhD candidate at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology at the Erasmus Medical Center Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam
"With excellent organisation and support from the team behind the programme, amazing (and diverse!) fellow students and two years of being able to stuff my brain full of relevant knowledge and experience, the Master’s prepared me in the best way it could have for the next steps in my career." Read more...

Birte Zuidinga (BSc Psychobiology)
Graduated in 2020 
PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence in Munich
"I completed my last internship in the 'Circuits – Computation – Models' department at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, where I studied motion vision in fruit flies. There, I found the exact type of research and lab environment that I liked. Fortunately, after graduating in 2020, I could come back to start my PhD in the same group." Read more...

Josien Visser (BSc Psychobiology)
graduated 2017
Postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova
"Astrocytes, star-shaped non-neuronal cells in the brain, have been my focus for the past 6 years. How did I end up studying this quite specific topic?"
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Annike Bekius (BSc. Psychobiology)
Graduated 2015
Postdoctoral researcher at UMC Utrecht Brain Center
"The internships I did, one of them in Berlin, helped me to discover my career wishes. After finishing the master I did a PhD at the department of Human Movement Sciences of the VU Amsterdam. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at UMC Utrecht Brain Center."
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