Department Cognitive Neuroscience

Human research

internships

• Group: Bioelectricity - Dr. Thom Oostendorp

  Focus: Estimating the electric activity of the heart and the brain from recorded signals at the body surface, and computing the currents inside the brain from electric or magnetic stimulation outside the head.
  Contact: Dr. Thom Oostendorp
  Email: T.Oostendorp@donders.ru.nl

• Group: Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience – Prof. Dr. Erno Hermans

  Focus: Research using human brain imaging, psychophysiology, and psychopharmacology on the neural basis of cognitive and affective processes, with the ultimate goal to advance treatment of stress-related psychopathology.
  Contact: Dr. Erno Hermans
  E-mail: erno.hermans@donders.ru.nl 
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• Group: Developmental Psychobiology - Prof. Dr. Carolina de Weerth

  Focus: Environmental factors and mechanisms that shape early and long-term human development, using psychological and biological perspectives. Interdisciplinary methods and areas of interest that include stress, caregiving, health, intestinal microbiota, behavior, breast milk, and interventions. (6-month internship)
  Contact: Prof. Dr. Carolina de Weerth
  E-mail: Carolina.deWeerth@radboudumc.nl
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• Group: Lifespan Neurocognitive Dynamics - Prof. dr. Rogier Kievit

  Focus: In the Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics lab we are interested how, and why, cognitive abilities change across the lifespan. To study these questions, we use a range of multivariate methods and Big Data approaches to examine how cognitive abilities change, fluctuate, affect each other, how brain structure and function supports changes in cognitive abilities, and how cognitive functioning interfaces with lifestyle factors such as physical and mental health, social and intellectual engagement and environmental factors in childhood and old age. 

  Contact: Prof. Rogier Kievit

  E-mail: Rogier.Kievit@radboudumc.nl
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• Group: Memory & Emotion – Dr. Nils. Kohn

  Focus: Human cognitive neuroscience studying the brain basis of memory, emotion, and their interactions. An interdisciplinary approach is applied integrating cognitive neuroimaging, genetics, pharmacology and diverse clinical disciplines.
  Contact: Nils Kohn
  Email: nils.kohn@donders.ru.nl
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• Group: Neuropsychiatry - Prof. Dr. Jan Buitelaar

  Focus: Cognitive, neural and genetic mechanisms involved in neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, autism, Conduct Disorder/Psychopathy) over the lifespan; including identifying new molecular targets for treatment, and developing and testing effective non-pharma (diet and mindfulness) and biological/pharma interventions.
  Contact: Prof. Dr. Jan Buitelaar
  Email: Jan.Buitelaar@radboudumc.nl
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• Group: Positive Developmental Psychopathology - Prof. Dr. Corina Greven

  Focus: Our research group studies Sensory Processing Sensitivity, a personality trait also referred to as Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), aiming to uncover its fundamental mechanisms and its connections to mental health outcomes, including stress-related and neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD and autism. We also explore how these topics intersect with research on mindfulness and mindfulnessbased interventions. Methods include: epidemiological samples, RCT designs, qualitative research, (neuro)cognitive research, twin design, neuroimaging.
  Contact: Prof. Corina Greven
  E-mail: corina.greven@donders.ru.nl
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• Group: Predictive Clinical Neuroscience - Prof. Dr. Andre Marquand

  Focus: To develop statistical and machine learning techniques for making predictions relevant to brain disorders and to understand their underlying neurobiology on the basis of neuroimaging data.
  Contact: Dr. Andre Marquand
  E-mail: a.marquand@donders.ru.nl
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• Group: Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Genetics - Dr. Emma Sprooten

  Focus: Understanding the link between genetic liability for different neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, the brain structure, and long-term functional outcomes using neuroimaging, genome-wide statistics, longitudinal data and multivariate statistics.
  Contact: Emma Sprooten
  E-mail e.sprooten@donders.ru.nl
   

• Group: Sleep and Memory - Dr. Martin Dresler

  Focus: Memory enhancement by sleep and other interventions, such as mnemonic strategies and memory training. Neural basis of cognitive processes during sleep, including dreaming. Healthy subjects and patients with affective disorders.
  Contact: Dr. Martin Dresler
  E-Mail:  martin.dresler@donders.ru.nl
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• Group: Molecular Psychiatry – Prof. Dr. Barbara Franke

  Group: Molecular Psychiatry

  Focus: unravelling the biology of multifactorial neurodevelopmental and stress-related psychiatric conditions. My lab employs novel approaches to gene finding, such as combining analyses of common and rare genetic variation. Downstream of risk factor identification, we aim to understand the pathways from gene to behavior/disorder. For this, we use complementary approaches, including epigenetics and other molecular omics, bioinformatics, induced pluripotent stem cell-based neurons, small animal models, and neuroimaging genetics.

  Contact: Prof Barbara Franke

  Email : barbara.franke@radboudumc.nl

  More information; https://www.ru.nl/personen/franke-b

• Group: Biophysics, CNS - Dr. Jeroen Goossens

  Focus: Investigate the primate brain from neuron to behaviour using advanced psychophysics, neuroimaging and (single-unit) electrophysiology. The focus is on visual perception, visuomotor behaviour and cognitive control in health and disease. Modeling links the levels of research.
  Contact: Dr. Jeroen Goossens
  E-mail: j.goossens@donders.ru.nl
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