Egbert Hartstra | Post doc
Egbert obtained his master in cognitive neuroscience at Leiden University back in 2007, after which he moved to Ghent (Belgium) to obtain his PhD under the supervision of prof. Marcel Brass. There he investigated which neural substrates underlie the remarkable ability of humans to transform verbal instructions into concrete actions and how this transformation process is accomplished. In 2012 he joined the Donders Institute as a postdoc investigating the neural mechanisms underlying performance monitoring and learning from mistakes (in the labs of prof. Markus Ullsperger and prof. Ivan Toni), and how we use different sources of social information to form internal models of others in order to predict others’ behavior (in the lab of prof. Harold Bekkering). From 2018 onwards Egbert worked at the Trimbos institute (Netherlands institute of mental health and addiction) in Utrecht. Here the focus was on disentangling contributing factors that foster mental wellbeing and health of the elderly and people with dementia, and translate these findings in practical applications and recommendations.
Egbert joined the lab in spring 2023. He investigates how the controllability of stressful outcomes affect the recruitment of dopaminergic and serotonergic pathways using computational modeling and various neuroimaging methods. This as part of the larger ERC ChemControl project.