People

Permanent staff

Anneke Alkemade

I am an assistant professor and have a background in human neuroanatomy, specializing in the diencephalon. My work is focused on increasing the understanding of the human subthalamic nucleus, which is targeted by deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with Parkinson’s disease. My ultimate aim is to explain the deleterious side effects of DBS. For this I study human post-mortem brain specimens using various microscopic techniques.

Steven Miletic

I am an assistant professor at Leiden University and senior scientist at the University of Amsterdam. I am interested in model-based cognitive neuroscience with a strong focus on the human subcortex.

Rawien Balesar

I am a technical assistant working with post-mortem data of subcortical nuclei in collaboration with Dick Swaab (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Senior Scientists, Postdocs, and PhD students

Russell Boag

I am a postdoc and am interested in the joint modelling of decision-making by combining behavioral and neural data. My research aims to find common processes across different decision-making tasks.

Solenn Walstra

I am a scientist working on model-based cognitive neuroscience projects. My projects make use of ultra-high resolution 7T structural and functional MRI of small subcortical nuclei involved in decision-making processes.

Anne Trutti

I am a postdoc. My projects make use of ultra-high resolution 7T structural and functional MRI of small subcortical nuclei involved in decision-making processes.

Josephine Groot

I am a postdoc. My research focuses on the structure and function of the human Thalamus using 7T in combination with cognitive modeling.

Niek Stevenson

I am a PhD student co-supervised by Dora Matzke (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and I am interested in the joint modelling of decision-making by combining behavioral and neural data. My research aims to find common processes across different decision-making tasks.

Ettore Cerracchio

I am a PhD student co-supervised by Steven Miletic (Leiden University and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) investigating the role of advanced knowledge biases in decision-making processes. My research makes use of 7T fMRI and joint modelling to clarify the relationship between behavioral and neural data in the presence of biases.

Lysanne Groenewegen

I am PhD student supervised by Anneke Alkemade (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) together with the IMCN team. My PhD project focuses on enhancing MRI diagnostic accuracy for Alzheimer's disease through histopathological correlation. The project involves mapping the whole-brain distribution of AD biomarkers and correlating these with MRI-measured atrophy for four Alzheimer phenotypes (typical, PCA, LPA, and FvAD), with the goal to validate and identify MRI markers that can distinguish between AD phenotypes and enhance confidence in using MRI for AD diagnosis.

Sarah Kemp

I am a PhD student co-supervised by Mark Hinder (University of Tasmania, Australia). I study the neural mechanisms of action cancellation using a variety of methodologies (DWI, qMRI, fNIRS, EMG, and brain stimulation), and am interested in how these processes change across the lifespan and are implemented at the cortical and subcortical level.

Visiting Research Fellows