Team

THE LEADS

Prof. Dr. Ingmar Franken

Full Professor

Addiction and risk behaviour

Focus: neurocognitive aspects of substance use and addiction. Developmental and clinical studies.

Substance: alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, opioids, and behavioral addictions

Prof. Dr. Hanan el Marroun

Full Professor

Substance use and brain development

Focus: substance use in pregnancy, developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD framework), substance use initiation and risky behaviour in adolescence

Substance: tobacco, cannabis and alcohol

Dr. Janna Cousijn

Associate Professor

Mechanisms underlying addiction risk and resilience

Focus: predictors of trajectories of addiction risk and resilience, from social and cultural dynamics to brain cells.

Substance: (medicinal) cannabis, alcohol.

THE TEAM

Dr. Michiel Boog

Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist

Addiction, personality and treatment

Focus: improving understanding and treatment of substance use disorders and co-morbid psychological problems, such as personality disorders and trauma

Substance: alcohol, cannabis, stimulants

Dr. Marilisa Boffo

Associate Professor

Treatment and prevention

Focus: Treatment and prevention; intervention design and evaluation; digital behavior change; transdiagnostic approach

Substance: Alcohol, gambling

Dr. Reshmi Marhe

Assistant Professor

The association between addiction and criminal behavior

Focus: psychological, social and neurocognitive predictors of treatment outcome in individuals with addiction and antisocial problems.

Substance: cannabis, alcohol, cocaine, heroine

Dr. Mieke Schulte

Assistant Professor

Neurobiological mechanisms of addiction

Focus: the role of impulsivity in the development, maintenance and treatment of addiction; neurostimulation to identify underlying neurobiological/neurocognitive pathways and improve treatment strategies.

Substance: alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis and cocaine

Dr. Miranda Lutz-Landesbergen

Assistant Professor

Cognitive control in substance use and behavioral addiction in youth

Focus: the role of cognitive control (error, feedback, and reward processing) and its mechanisms in externalizing disorders, focused on (development on) substance use disorders and behavioural addiction among youth.

Substance: All addictive substances

Dr. Emese Kroon

Post-doctoral researcher

Neurocognitive processes and mental health in addiction

Focus: The interaction between internal (e.g. gender, mental health, cognition) and external factors (e.g. cues, social influence, culture) contributing to the development of and maintenance of substance use disorders

Substance: (medicinal) cannabis and alcohol

Drs. Olga Boer

PhD student

Substance use and brain development

Focus: Pre-existing brain variations as risk factor for adolescent substance use, and (long-term) neural consequences of substance use initiated in adolescence, using MRI and EEG

Substance: alcohol, cannabis, tobacco

Drs. Karis Colyer - Patel

PhD student

Brain development and neurocognitive processes in addiction

Focus: investigating the similarities and differences in neuro-cognitive mechanisms underlying adolescent and adult trajectories of alcohol and cannabis use.

Substance: alcohol, cannabis

Drs. Sofie van Koppen

PhD Student

Preclinical addiction models and brain development

Focus: the role of neurocognitive and neuropharmacological effects of adolescent substance exposure compared to exposure during adulthood.

Substance: Alcohol, cannabis.

Drs. Henrico Stam

PhD student

Time estimation, impulsiveness and substance use

Focus: disentangling the association between delay discounting and addiction with distorted time estimation as possible explanation.

Substance: nicotine, alcohol, other substance use.

Drs. Nora de Bode

PhD student

Mental health and cognition in recreational and medicinal cannabis users

Focus: motives and characteristics of regular cannabis use and its interactions with mental health and neurocognition

Substance: medicinal and recreational cannabis

Drs. Christophe Romein

PhD student

Substance use and addiction, social cognition, brain development

Focus: the role of social context as a risk and protective factor for substance use in adolescence and (young) adulthood using functional MRI

Substance: alcohol, cannabis

Drs. Jennie Lukoff

PhD Student

The association between addiction and antisocial behavior

Focus: understanding the neurobiological underpinnings contributing to the mechanisms that perpetuate substance use and antisocial behavior

Substance: cannabis, alcohol, stimulants

Drs. Hajra Kalam

PhD student

Substance use and functional brain networks

Focus: the role of the default mode network in substance use disorders and its interactions with comorbid psychopathology

Substance: nicotine, alcohol, stimulants, psychedelics

Drs. Sara Brouwer

Clinical Psychologist and PhD student

Effectiveness of schema therapy for addicts with personality disorders

Drs. Doga Ultanir

PhD student

Substance use, gambling, and criminal behavior

Focus: The development and common neurobiological mechanisms of substance use, gambling, and criminal behavior among youth.

Drs. Harriet Galvin

PhD student

Responsible gambling behaviour and behaviour change

Focus: Online responsible gambling behaviour, digital behaviour change techniques, addiction prevention

Substance: Gambling

Drs. Jia-Hua Hsieh (Yvette)

PhD student

Recreational and medicinal cannabis use

Focus: ESM research

Substance: Cannabis