About me

Hi, I’m Kevin, a cognitive neuroscientist, working as a PhD candidate in the Learning and Motivation lab (Donders Centre for Cognition) and the Predictive Brain lab (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
My main field of interest is educational neuroscience. Using both behavioural and neuroimaging methods, I try to understand how the human brain is motivated to learn and explore in healthy adults and children – in the lab and in the classroom.
Additionally, I focus on how we can use the findings from neuroscience to create learning environments that foster curiosity, growth and a life-long love for learning. Therefore, I try to bridge the gap between fundamental neuroscience and educational practice. One part of this is that I am studying to become a licensed high school physics teacher. Because teaching is incredibly fun, and it keeps you grounded!
I strive to do science in the most open and transparent way, and as much as possible in collaboration with a team of colleagues (#teamscience!). I also try to translate my work in ‘normal-speak’: publishing and speaking in easier, less formal language (as well as in Dutch) for non-neuroscientists to learn from what we do!
Interested in what I do? Feel free to send me an email or DM me on LinkedIn to have a quick chat!