Roeland
Heerema

I am a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Applied Computational Psychiatry lab supervised by Professor Quentin Huys. We are part of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research in the Institute of Neurology of University College London.

My research interests revolve around the interplay between emotions and decision-making. During my PhD at the MBB lab of the Paris Brain Institute, I focused on how incidental positive and negative moods bias economic cost-benefit trade-offs. Now, I investigate the reverse causal arrow: how do we appraise the outcomes of the choices we make, and which different emotions do they evoke? In researching these questions, I use behavioural experiments, computational modelling, and neuroimaging. My goal is to better understand how thinking patterns and emotions can turn maladaptive, as is the case in mood disorders like depression and bipolar disorder.

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