Research interests

My work focuses on prejudice and face perception. I am also interested and working on social categorization, knowledge representation, and evolutionary processes, using virtual reality and reverse correlation methods.

Short bio

Presently, I am assistant professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2011, I worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, advised by Alexander Todorov, with support of a Rubicon grant of the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO).

In 1998 I started studying artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. After a short intermezzo to get my black jack dealer degree, I made the switch to psychology at that same university in 2000.

In 2006 I received my MSc in social psychology cum laude, working on a project which investigated the link between prejudice and behavior using virtual reality technology and a thesis on reconciling feature-based stereotyping and face categorization using perceptual symbol systems. In the same year, I built the Nijmegen virtual reality lab together with Daniël Wigboldus. In 2006 I started my PhD project on face categorization and prejudice at Radboud University Nijmegen. My advisors were Daniël Wigboldus and Ad van Knippenberg. I defended my dissertation on January 18, 2011, and received my PhD cum laude.

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