I am an assistant professor at the Brain & Cognition department at University of Amsterdam (UvA) Psychology.
I received my BA & MA in Cognitive and Biological Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and received my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Amsterdam.
Following my PhD, I was awarded a NWO Rubicon Scholarship to complete a 2 year post-doc at Harvard Univerity, in Mahzarin Banaji's Social Cognition Laboratory. Here my research focused on the influence that (unconscious) stereotypical knowledge has on low-level attentional processes, memory & language perception. Subsequently, I received a Marie Curie fellowship which allowed me to work together with Anil Seth at Sussex University, exploring the theoretical underpinning of how (social) predictions shape perceptual processing.
My research focusses on the interplay between social knowledge and cognition, particularly on how pre-existing social knowledge (prejudice, stereotypes, political beliefs, etc) can directly influence basic cognitive processing, such as visual perception, consciousness, memory and language perception.
I teach an MA course on EEG, and BA courses on psycholinguistics. I have developed a course introducting cognitive and neuroscientific research methods (B&C Toolbox).