I am a Ph.D. student in Psychology, with a concentration in Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences. I hold both a BSc and Honours BSc in Psychology from the University of Groningen and a Research MSc in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, where I specialized in Cognitive Neurosciences and Psychological Methods. During my master's, I completed a research internship at the Social Brain Lab (led by Dr. Christian Keysers and Dr. Valeria Gazzola), working with a novel neuroimaging technique in mice. I conducted my master’s thesis on social reinforcement learning and ingroup bias in the lab of Dr. David Amodio at the University of Amsterdam and NYU. My research interests center on the social neuroscience of empathy and prosocial behavior, particularly the question of why people care (or fail to care) about others, and how these processes help us understand and treat mental illness. My dissertation specifically examines how individuals with psychopathy learn empathy, prosocial, and antisocial behaviors. To address this, I use computational modeling, fMRI, and machine learning, and I am committed to open science practices in all stages of my work.