I am a PhD candidate within the Amsterdam Emotional Memory Lab at the Department of Clinical Psychology, under the supervision of Merel Kindt, Renée Visser, and Eus van Someren. My work focuses on the role of sleep in emotional memory plasticity. Specifically, I am interested in whether sleep alters the emotional intensity of emotionally charged memories during their consolidation, and whether sleep’s effect is influenced by other factors like future relevance. Additionally, I investigate sleep’s role in the development of intrusive memories.

Media appearances

• Deutschlandfunk Nova

Other links

• Amsterdam Emotional Memory Lab

Research methods

• Experimental paradigms
• Surveys
• Psychophysiology

Current research projects

• Sleep and the emotional charge of memories: In this project, we are investigating whether future relevance influences the effect of sleep on emotional memory processing.
• Sleep and intrusions: Here, we are interested in whether the timing of sleep following a stressful event influences the development of intrusive memories.
   

• Bachelor, Master, and Research Master thesis supervision
• Honours programme and Research Master internship supervision