Since September 2008 I have been working as a PhD candidate at the Behavioural Science Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen. My research mainly focuses on the influence of social categorization on emotion perception and language processes. The research I am currently working on, together with my supervisors Daniël Wigboldus and Rob Holland, deals with social categorization and recognition of emotional expressions. In the past spring/summer (2011) I have been working in Kurt Hugenberg’s Social Cognition lab at the Miami University.

As a side project I have been working (together with Oliver Langner, Ron Dotsch, Daniël Wigboldus, Ad van Knippenberg, Skyler Hawk, Job van der Schalk, and Vasily Klucharev) on developing a high quality faces database, which is called the Radboud Faces Database (RaFD). For more information about the database and instructions how to get access please press the RaFD button.