During my undergraduate studies, I completed a thesis project exploring the role of general meditation, pain attenuation meditation, and distraction in acute pain.

For my master’s research, I completed two major research projects and one literature thesis. 

• My first research project assessed whether a 30-minute breathwork intervention reduces the severity of misophonic triggers in people with misophonia.

  • A paper on the use of pupillometry to quantify misophonic symptoms arose from this project and is available on the Open Science Framework. The research on misophonia was featured on Dutch national TV program, NTR focus. Final clip can be found here.

• The second research project aimed to determine barriers to alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment in transgender and cisgender people in the Netherlands.

  • This research project was published as my first co-first author publication in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.

  • Research for this project was continued through a grant, to validate our newly created Barriers to AUD Treatment Questionnaire (BAT-Q). Publication is still underway. 

• My literature thesis focused on the menstrual cycle and examined the influences of the menstrual cycle on neurocognitive functioning underlying alcohol use and alcohol use disorder. This paper was also published as first-author, in the Amsterdam Journal of Social Sciences. 

Additional projects included designing a research proposal on the role of estrogen hormone-based replacement therapy on autobiographical memory recall for transgender women, which was presented at the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition summer school poster presentation.