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