Teamwork makes the dream work
Principle Investigator
Jan Theeuwes
Current PhD students
Jasper de Waard
Ya Gao
Rongqi Lin
Yavor Ivanov
Ningkai Wang
Zoë Zhang
Yayla Ilksoy
Jiayi Yao
Past PhD students
Richard Godijn (2003) [cum laude].
Assistant prof. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Karen Mortier (2006)
Assistant prof. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marieke Martens (2007).
Full prof UT Eindhoven
Stefan Van der Stigchel (2007) [cum laude].
Full prof Utrecht University
Yair Pinto (2008)
Assistant prof. University of Amsterdam
Erik Van der Burg (2009) [cum laude]
Researcher Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thomas Koelewijn (2007)
Researcher Uni Medical Center Groningen
Manon Mulckhuyse (2009)
Assistant Prof. Leiden University
Jaap Munneke (2010)
Research prof Northeastern Uni Boston, USA
Clayton Hickey (2011) [cum laude]
Associate prof. University of Birmingham, UK
Daniel Schreij (2012)
Co-Founder Cargoplot, logistics
Sebastiaan Mathôt (2013) [cum laude]
Associate prof. University Groningen
Lisette Schmidt (2015)
Bachelor coordinator Vrije Uni Amsterdam
Berno Bucker (2017)
Director Demonstrator Lab VU Amsterdam
Dirk van Moorselaar (2017)
Data Scientist, Axite, Leiden
Michel Failing (2017)
Data Scientist, Lyft, Berlin
Paul Boon (2018)
Data Sciencist, Solynta
Benchi Wang (2019)
Full prof. Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Daan van Es (2019) [cum laude]
Data scientist Alliander (netbeheer)
Daniel Preciado Vanegas (2020)
Assistant Professor Communication Science Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Brónagh McCoy (2020) [cum Laude]
Postdoc at King’s College London UK
Joanne van Slooten (2020)
Healthcare Psychologist GGZ inGeest
Frank van der Horst (2022)
Researcher at De Nederlandse Bank (DNB)
Aisu Li (2024) [cum laude]
Lecturer Soochow University, China
Changrun Huang (2024)
Postdoc at Duke University, Durham, USA
Jessica Heeman (2024)
Human Factor Specialist at Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN)
Zhenzhen Xu (2025)
Postdoc at Maastricht University, Maastricht
Dock Duncan (2025) [cum laude]
Post-doc at University of Birmingham UK
Past Postdocs
1. Chris Olivers; now full prof Visual Cognition Vrije Universiteit
2. Martijn Meeter; now full prof Education Vrije Universiteit
3. Sander Nieuwenhuis; now full prof University of Leiden
4. Durk Talsma; now associate prof University of Ghent
5. Sylco Hoppenbrouwers, now assistant prof Erasmus
6. Sara Jahfari; now researcher at the Dutch Police
6. Joshua Snell now assistent prof at Vrije Universiteit
7. Louisa Bogaerts: now associate prof University of Ghent
8. David Richter: Marie Curie fellow Granada University
9. Güven Kandemir, now Leibniz-Institut, Dortmund. Germany