Researchers

prof. dr. Matthias J. Wieser
Cognitive and affective neuroscience of anxiety and pain
Prof. dr. Wieser is an expert in EEG research of social, affective and cognitive processes underlying anxiety and pain.
Mental health, generalised anxiety disorders.
His research interests lie mainly in the area of improving treatments for anxiety disorders. Van der Heiden wants to strengthen the cooperation between clinical practice and university and contribute to research and education in the area of effective interventions. He mainly focuses on increasing the effectiveness of existing treatments for anxiety disorders.

Colin van der Heiden
dr. Freddy van der Veen
Cognitive and affective neuroscience of individual differences in feedback processing
Van der Veen is an expert in EEG and Autonomic Nervous System research of individual differences in social and romantic feedback processing.
dr. Marta Andreatta
Associative learning and emotional memories
Psychophysiology is the research expertise. She uses vitual reality to investigate the emotional processes in ecological environments.
dr. Anita Harrewijn
Developmental psychopathology, specifically anxiety in children
Dr. Anita Harrewijn examines cognitive and neurobiological processes involved in the development of anxiety symptoms in children. She has a special interest in adolescence, a pivotal developmental period for social and neural changes as well as the development of anxiety.
dr. Marianne Littel
Working mechanisms and effectiveness of (new applications) of EMDR and mindfulness
EMDR, mindfulness, some expertise in addiction/ attentional bias/ memory reconsolidation research (re-setting memories).
dr. Helen Tibboel
Automatic evaluation and attention bias in sexuality
Examining automatic processes in the context of sexuality and relationships.
dr. Alex Wong
Associative learning in anxiety-related psychopathology
The research expertise from dr. Alex Wong lies in the generalization, maintenance and reduction of pathological fear and avoidance.
Threat learning and defensive responses
My research is focused on fear generalization and its manifestation in the psychophysiological, affective and cognitive level.
Marcelo Malbec, MSc.
Intolerance of uncertainty
My PhD project examines different neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the transdiagnostic risk factor intolerance of uncertainty.