Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Name:                                                dr. Stefan Van der Stigchel

E-mail:                                               s.van.der.stigchel at uu.nl

Date of birth:                                      May 1, 1980

Place of birth:                                     Dordrecht, the Netherlands

                                                          

Education

1998 - 2003                                                    Msc of Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands

 

Research Experience

August 2007 – now                                        Assistant Professor at the Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

 

August 2003 – July 2007                               PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Research on attention and eye movements.

Supervisor: Jan Theeuwes

 

January 2006 – May 2006                              Visiting researcher at the Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Research on hemianopic vision.

Supervisor: Jason Barton

 

August 2002 – December 2002                    Cognitive Control and Psychopathology Laboratorium, Washington University, St. Louis, USA.

Msc research project on a connectionist model of task switching

Supervisor: Todd Braver

 

January 2002 – April 2002                             TNO-FEL, the Hague.

3 months internship on the development of a decision support system for the Dutch navy.


 

Teaching Experience

2006 – 2007                                                              Coaching students from various fields in thesis writing (snelafstuderen.nl)

 

2004 & 2005 & 2006                                                 Teaching assistant first year Undergraduate “Methods in Psychology”, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

2001                                                                          Teaching assistant first year Undergraduate “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”, Utrecht University, Utrecht