NATALIE NIELSEN | PhD
Natalie Nielsen obtained her bachelor's degree (cum laude) in Psychology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In her thesis, she investigated a limitation of the linear mixed effects model: negative correlation among clustered observations, which resulted in her first publication. After this, she changed her focus from statistical to neuroscientific research. In 2022, she graduated with a master's degree (cum laude) in Cognitive Neuroscience from Radboud University. During the one-year internship of her master programme, Natalie was part of a larger pharmacological study. Under the supervision of Rebecca Calcott, Natalie used fMRI to look into dopaminergic modulation of working memory gating mechanisms.
Last year, she received a Radboudumc Top Talent Award, which enables her to pursue a PhD on distraction-related disruption of ruminative thoughts in working memory. She is excited to first round off the huge pharmacological study and then move onto the PhD project.