Hello! I’m an associate professor in the department of Social, Health & Organisational Psychology at Utrecht University. Currently, I lead the human+ team, a young team consisting of early carreer researchers investigating social cognition and social dynamics in the age of AI. Our research is generously funded by the ERC, NWO, and Utrecht University. From 2020 to 2024, I was an assistant professor in the same department. From 2017 to 2020 I was a postdoc in the Social Brain in Action Laboratory within the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland. In bonny Scotland I was advised by Professor Emily Cross and part of the Social Robots project in which we studied how humans perceive and interact with robots (go #teamSoBots!). Prior to that I was a postdoc in the Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Maastricht University, The Netherlands and the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2015-2016). Between 2011 and 2015, I completed my PhD under the supervision of Professor Beatrice de Gelder at Tilburg University. In 2016, I successfully defended my dissertation entitled “Sympathy for the Devil - On the Neural Mechanisms of Threat and Distress Reactivity”.