Floris van der Werff is a Cognitive Neuroscience Master's student in the Development & Lifelong Plasticity track. He completed a Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University, where he discovered his fascination with the immensely complex human brain. For his thesis, he predicted the performance of a c-VEP-based brain-computer interface (BCI) to study the phenomenon of BCI illiteracy. This project sparked his interest in neuroscience research, leading to his ambition to obtain a PhD in the field.

As part of the lab, he is supervised by Soha Farboud and Hanneke den Ouden in a brain stimulation study, which aims to explore the mechanisms of learning and decision-making, as well as to examine the flexibility in relearning new actions. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation will be used for this project, a novel brain stimulation technique that he believes has great potential to advance our understanding of learning and decision-making processes in the human brain.