Floortje is a PhD-student supervised by Hanneke . She is very interested in the executive functions of brain, such as attention, decision-making and cognitive effort. She enjoys using different neuroimaging and neuromodulation methods to study these functions. For her PhD, she is investigating the role of the average reward rate in the environment on cognitive effort expenditure, and the brain regions and neurotransmitters involved in this process. She will be using behavioural studies, psychopharmacology, focussed ultrasound stimulation and patient studies to do so.

Before joining the lab, Floortje finished a bachelor in Health and Life Sciences at VU University. For her bachelor thesis, she did an internship looking at visual mismatch negativity using EEG. She then continued her studies with a research master in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. Floortje completed an internship with dr. Martine van Schouwenburg, investigating the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in vigilant attention using electrical brain stimulation, and an fMRI study on the localization of the multiple-demand network with dr. Yaara Erez at the MRC Brain and Cognition Unit (Cambridge, UK).

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