About
The Brain and Emotion Laboratory consists of senior and junior researchers as well as young PhD-students. Extensive collaborations exist with several laboratories.
Beatrice de Gelder
Group Leader
Professor Beatrice de Gelder holds degrees in both Philosophy and Psychology, and received her PhD in 1972 from the University of Louvain, Belgium. She began her academic career teaching Philosophy of Science, first in Leiden and then in Tilburg. In the mid nineties de Gelder changed her field of interest to Cognitive Science. She is currently professor in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Neuroscience and Psychology, Maastricht University. Her main interests lies in the 4 topics below:
- Non-conscious recognition in patients with cortical damage.
- Emotional expression in whole bodies.
- Face recognition and its deficits.
- Multisensory perception and the interaction between auditory and visual processes.
Contact
Tel. +31 43 3881437.
E-mail: b.degelder@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Room 3.009, Oxfordlaan 55, 6229 EV Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Funding
- Re-Silence grant Horizon-CL4-2021-Human-01-21 (Grant agreement: 101070278)
- European Research Council (ERC) Synergy grant (Grant agreement 856495; Relevance)
- Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Proactive Program H2020-EU.1.2.2 (Grant agreement 824160; EnTimeMent)
- Research and Innovation Program H2020-EU.1.3.1 (Grant agreement 721385; Socrates)
- Horizon 2020 programme H2020-FETPROACT-2020-2 (grant agreement 101017884; GuestXR)
- Industrial Leadership Program H2020-EU.1.2.2 (Grant agreement 825079; MindSpaces)
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- European Research Counsel: FP7/2007-2013, ERC grant agreement number 295673 July 2012- March 2018
- European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant 514 agreement No 645553, ICT DANCE (IA, 2015-2017)
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship grant (no. 703493) to J.Katsyri from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Previous
Lab members
PostDocs
Marta Poyo Solanas
PhD students
Giuseppe Marrazzo
Vojta Smekal
Juanzhi Lu
Baichen Li
Jane Chesley
Research assistants
- Sophie Kühne
Student Research Assistants and Internship Students
- Zeynep Yenigün
Alumni
- Ema Jugović
- Tahnée Engelen, PhD
- Minye Zhan, PhD
- Maarten Vaessen, PhD
- Aline de Borst, PhD
- Selma Kemmerer, PhD
- Kiki Derey, PhD
- Ruud Hortensius, PhD
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Rebecca Watson, PhD
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Elisabeth (Lisanne) Huis in 't Veld, PhD
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Mehrdad Seirafi, PhD
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Gert Kristo, PhD
- Jan Van den Stock, PhD
- Akihiro Tanaka, PhD
- Bernard Stienen, PhD
- Charlotte Sinke, PhD
- Wim van de Riet
- Mariska Kret, PhD
- Swann Pichon, PhD
- Ruthger Righart, PhD
- Maurice Magnée, PhD
- Gilles Pourtois, PhD
- Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD
- Jan-Pieter Teunisse, PhD
- Romke Rouw, PhD
- Ema Jugović
- Tahnée Engelen, PhD
- Minye Zhan, PhD
- Maarten Vaessen, PhD
- Aline de Borst, PhD
- Selma Kemmerer, PhD
- Kiki Derey, PhD
- Ruud Hortensius, PhD
- Rebecca Watson, PhD
- Elisabeth (Lisanne) Huis in 't Veld, PhD
- Mehrdad Seirafi, PhD
- Gert Kristo, PhD
- Jan Van den Stock, PhD
- Akihiro Tanaka, PhD
- Bernard Stienen, PhD
- Charlotte Sinke, PhD
- Wim van de Riet
- Mariska Kret, PhD
- Swann Pichon, PhD
- Ruthger Righart, PhD
- Maurice Magnée, PhD
- Gilles Pourtois, PhD
- Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD
- Jan-Pieter Teunisse, PhD
- Romke Rouw, PhD
Collaborations
- Maastricht University (Lars Riecke)
- Maastricht University (Judith Peters, Ph.D.)
- Tilburg University (Marco Tamietto)
- Utrecht University (Jack van Honk)
- Donders Institute (Dennis Schutter
- MIT (Sinha Lab)
- Brain Emotion Lab Leuven, K.U. Leuven (Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Jan Van den Stock)
- MGH/MIT/HMS, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
- Montreal Neurological Institute (Alain Ptito)
- Maastricht University (Lars Riecke)
- Maastricht University (Judith Peters, Ph.D.)
- Tilburg University (Marco Tamietto)
- Utrecht University (Jack van Honk)
- Donders Institute (Dennis Schutter
- MIT (Sinha Lab)
- Brain Emotion Lab Leuven, K.U. Leuven (Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Jan Van den Stock)
- MGH/MIT/HMS, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
- Montreal Neurological Institute (Alain Ptito)
Internship / Thesis Oppotunities
There are opportunities to complete a thesis or an internship. Students who are interested can contact Beatrice de Gelder.