What do you want to learn?

Understanding motivation and HOW TO support people to learn more during life.

What motivates you?

Working in a team with nice people who really see me and who I get to know better during our learning experience.

Grants & Awards

• 2020 Team-science prize, Science Faculty Radboud University, European University Neurocognition
  
• 2020 Donders Cube, Donders Diversity and Sustainable Science (portfolioholder 2010-20)
  
• 2017 Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
  
• 2017 Elected member to the Academia Europaea
  
• 2016 Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
  
• 2015 Visiting Scientist, Harvard University (sabbatical)
  
• 2012 Language in Interaction. Work-package leader Gravitation program
  27,6M Euro, NWO
• 2012 How the integration of sensorimotor simulation and mentalizing allows for human action understanding. Highest group subsidy in the Netherlands, TOP programme
  750k Euro, NWO
• 2005 Conceptual knowledge in goal-directed Action. Highest personal grant in competition in the Netherlands
  1.25M Euro, NWO-VICI
• 2004 Joint Action System Technology. IP-Coordinator together with Ruud Meulenbroek. Integrated Project, 6th Framework Programme “Information Society Technologies”
  6M Euro
• 2001 Artifact structural learning through Imitation. WP-leader., STREP, 5th Framework Programme “Information Society Technologies”
  3M Euro

Experience

• 2002 - now Professor in Psychology & Principal Investigator
  Donders Institute
• 2012 - 2019 2x as Chair, Board of Directors
  Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
• 2008 - 2011 Director
  Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Donders Centre for Cognition
• 2007 - 2008 Vice-Dean
  Faculty of Social Science, Radboud University Nijmegen