I'm a computational cognitive neuroscientist, and I study how the brain makes sense of continuous, naturalistic experience. I want to understand neural processes that carve the ongoing stream of life into discrete, meaningful events, and how those events are later bound in memory.

In the Amsterdam Emotional Memory Lab, I use computational models and (mostly) fMRI to study how the brain separates emotional episodes and gradually weaves them into the overarching narratives of autobiographical memory.

I feel most at home with questions that sit between neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence.

I completed a BSc in Psychology and a Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at Maastricht University before moving to the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour for my PhD at the Dynamic and Naturalistic Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Dr Linda Geerligs.

In my PhD work I used naturalistic fMRI, neural-network encoding models, and data-driven state segmentation to show how the brain organises continuous activity into anti-correlated neural states, and how this structure supports perception and memory.

I joined the Amsterdam Emotional Memory Lab in 2026 as a postdoctoral researcher, and I work with Dr Renée Visser on her NWO Vidi project "Memories in Motion: from emotional events to life stories", which connects the neuroscience of single-event memory with the study of autobiographical memory.