Cognition & Plasticity Lab

About us

We are located in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Fellows

Heleen Slagter

 Prof. Dr.

Ruben Laukkonen

Evert Boonstra

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Caterina Trentin

Josipa Alilovic

Joint supervision

Simon van Gaal

Lynn Sorensen

Joint supervision with Steven Scholte

Joint supervision

Carien Lansink

Chris Jungerius

Alumni

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Former PhD students:

Marlies Vissers

Lotte Talsma

Valentina Perdomo

Leon Reteig

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Former postdocs

Fleur Bouwer

Dirk van Moorselaar

Martijn Barendregt

Jim Herring

Martine van Schouwenburg

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Heleen Slagter, PhD

Director of the Cognition & Plasticity laboratory, Professor Brain, Cognition, and Plasticity at the Department of Applied and Experimental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

BIO:

• Master in Biological Psychology, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands (2000)

• PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam (2000-2005)

• Visiting Research Fellow Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, USA (2002)

• Postdoc, Waisman Center for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2005-2007)

• Assistant Scientist, Waisman Center for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2007-2009)

• Assistant Professor (UD), Dept of Psychology, University of Amsterdam (2009-2011)

• Associate Professor (UHD), Dept of Psychology, University of Amsterdam (2011-2018)

• Professor (hoogleraar), Dept of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2019-present)

FUNDING AND AWARDS:

• Marie Curie Reintegration grant (2009; €75.000)

• VIDI (2010; €800.000)

• Spinoza Junior Investigator Grant (2010; €11.250)

• Aspasia (2011; €100.000)

• Onderzoekstalent (2012; €168.000).

• Early Career Award 2014 by the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)

• ABC Project Grant (2015; €250.000)

• ABMP Project Grant (2015; €250.000)

• ERC Starting Grant (2015; €1.500.000)

• ABC Talent Grant (2016; €250.000; co-PI)

• NWO talent grant (2017; €200.000; co-PI)

• ABC Project Grant (2018; €250.000)

• IDA grant UvA (2018; €250.000)

CONTACT:

Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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