Behaviour Change, Social & Cultural Psychology
During my experience as a Lecturer for Behaviour Change and Social & Cultural Psychology at the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud, I supervised bachelor students in their research for their bachelor thesis. The topics covered were workplace productivity and confronting attitudes towards climate change. Data from the climate-confrontation theses I supervised are included in a co-authored 2025 article in the Journal of Environmental Psychology entitled The complaining but competent confronter: An experimental examination of the social costs and benefits related to interpersonal confrontations in climate change conversations.
I moved to studying neuro and psycholinguistics from a general cognitive science background. I learnt the literature and methods of the field from scratch when starting my PhD, such as designing language experiments, stimulus generation and construction, speech processing using psycholinguistic tools like Praat, programming experiments with tools like Neurobs Presentation and statistical data analyses using mixed effects models in R.
During my doctoral research I investigated the lexical interface, which is thought to be the link between word production and comprehension and is thought to be shared among them. I used behavioural, neuroimaging (fMRI), and magnetic brain stimulation (TMS) methods to study it. I designed, programmed, handled participant recruitment, dealt with limited equipment availability, tested participants and collected data, analysed, and wrote up 4 separate studies end to end with a total of 133 participants across the 4 studies.
To achieve this purpose, I worked across 4 research groups with 7 collaborators, including a shared first author study.
I presented my research at international conferences in the form of posters and talks. Also, this knowledge led to a co-authored book chapter, with one of my supervisors, in the Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (second edition) entitled A concise overview of the spatial and temporal underpinnings of lexical selection in spoken word production.
I also wrote a poem about my research project. If you do not have a background in Neurolinguistics (or even if you do), this poem might help you understand the specific question I am studying in my research. Find this poem here.
I submitted my thesis in September of 2026 and expect to defend around spring 2027.
Master Thesis
During my masters thesis I used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data of the human brain to test how the resolution of DTI data affects probabilistic models of brain connectivity