Welcome to my homepage. I am an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
I grew up in a small village near Eindhoven in the province of Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. My academic career started in Utrecht University where I obtained my M.Sc. degree (doctorandus) in Biology. Part of my master's research was conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University in Canada. The M.Sc. project evolved into a Ph.D. in Neurology and Neurosurgery and a postdoctoral research position in Ophthalmology at McGill University. I continued westwards to do postdoctoral research at the Psychology department of Stanford University, USA, before I returned to the Netherlands to start my own group.
My research is centered on visual neuroscience and perception. The ultimate goals are to understand the neurophysiology of the visual system, and how neural computations result in visual perception. My research reconstructs perceptual representations of human visual cortex using behavior (psychophysics), computational models, neuroimaging (predominantly fMRI), and custom-built biologically-inspired data-analysis methods (for example the pRF method). Besides fundamental vision questions, I apply the knowledge of the visual system to a variety of clinical manifestations and as a data-base for the validation and development of new techniques.
For more information, you can browse these web pages, view my academic genealogy, linkedin profile, ResearcherID profile (including publication and citation metrics) or download my CV.