Principal Investigator
dr. Henk van Steenbergen
![]() Henk van Steenbergen is an Assistant Professor at the Cognitive Psychology Unit at Leiden University and founder of the Affect, Motivation, and Action (AMA) lab. Henk studied at Leiden University, where he obtained a BA degree in Philosophy of Psychology, and a BSc and MPhil degree in Cognitive Neuroscience (cum laude) in 2007. He obtained his PhD (cum laude / highest distinction) from the same university in 2012, on a thesis entitled “The drive to control: How affect and motivation regulate cognitive control”. LinkedIn profile | Google Scholar profile | ResearchGate profile | CV |
Postdocs
dr. Floor van Meer
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Research Master students
Jet Lageman, BSc
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Regular Master students
Hafsteinn Ragnarsson (2019-2020)
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Honors Bachelor students
Dominique Poelarends
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Bachelor students
- Lasse Dietz (2018-2019)
- Isabel Kalverda (2018-2019)
- Lisette Kuijt (2018-2019)
- Jetske Marcelis (2018-2019)
- Ruben Scholten (2018-2019)
- Rosa Vegter (2018-2019)
Alumni
PhD candidates
Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, MSc (2013-2020)
![]() Janna Marie studied Medicine at the Erasmus Medical Center (2003-2007) and obtained her research master’s degree in Neuroscience and Cognition at Utrecht University in 2009 (cum laude/ with the highest distinction). During her research master, she worked as an intern at the Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience (UMC Utrecht) and the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology (VU University Medical Center Amsterdam). During both internships, she used functional neuroimaging to investigate the human brain. In addition, she wrote a master thesis on the effects of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS). Following her masters, Janna Marie worked as a research assistant at the Department of Psychiatry of the UMC Utrecht, investigating the development of the adolescent brain with a focus on reward processing. After working in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab in Birmingham, Janna Marie started her current PhD project in March 2013. This project, supervised by Michiel Westenberg, Nic van der Wee, and Henk van Steenbergen, was embedded within the Leiden Family Study on Social Anxiety. The focus of her work was on profiling endophenotypes of social anxiety disorder using structural and functional MRI. In addition, she investigated the processing of emotional faces in patients with Cushing’s disease and is involved in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA). LinkedIn profile | Google Scholar profile | ResearchGate profile |
Mikael Kowal, MSc (2012-2016)
Research Assistants
Alexandra Felea (2017-2018)
Heike Greb, BSc (2017-2018)
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Hans Revers, MSc (2015-2016)
Erwin Haasnoot, MSc (2014-2015)
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Jonathan Barnhoorn, MSc (2014-2015)
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Christina Pfeuffer, MSc (2014)
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Research master students
Lisa Landman, BSc (2018-2019)
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Fleur van Elk, BSc (2018-2019)
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Maaike Verburg, BSc (2018-2019)
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Roos Doekemeijer, BSc (2017-2018)
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Lena Ibold, BSc (2017-2018)
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Dianne Venneker, BSc (2017-2018)
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Iris Spruit, BSc (2016-2017)
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Iliana Samara, MSc (2016-2017)
Pauline van der Wel, BSc (2016-2017)
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Anja Berger, BSc (2016)
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Mithras Kuipers, BSc (2015-2016)
Inga Rösler (2015-2016)
Naomi Vlegels, BSc (2014-2016)
Regular master students
- Cherise Joyner (2018-2019)
- Thor van den Berg (2016-2017)
- Maria Tarisa (2015-2016)
- Romy Petitjean (2015-2016)
Bachelor students
- Daisy Berris (2018-2019)
- Janna van Helden (2018-2019)
- Ayse Öz (2018-2019)
- Thijs van Rhee (2018-2019)
- Niek Stevenson (2018-2019)
- Laura van Toor (2018-2019)
- Bas Zuidervaart (2018-2019)
- Ted Adrichem (2016-2017)
- Rieke Heeringa (2016-2017)
- Roos Huijs (2016-2017)
- Laura Slabbers (2016-2017)
- Nurseda Risvanoglu (2016-2017)
- Isabelle Blok (2016-2017)
- Zala Reppman (2016-2017)
- Bas Rexwinkel (2016-2017)
- Anke Halfweeg (2015-2016)
- Esther Bliek (2015-2016)
- Sanne de Jager (2015-2016)
- Feride Ozturk (2015-2016)
- Maxim Allaart (2015-2016)
- Jasmijn Hondebrink (2015-2016)
- Anne de Groot (2015-2016)
- Tyrza van Leeuwen (2015-2016)
- Evelien Lageweg (2015-2016)