Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Luxembourg
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
As a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Luxembourg, I investigate social, behavioral, and biological determinants of cognitive aging. My curiosity to understand brain diseases from an epidemiological perspective has shaped my academic career. After graduating Cum Laude from University, I got in depth experience in MRI assessment as MRI research coordinator of the GenerationR study, a population-based cohort from fetal life until young adulthood in a multi-ethnic urban population in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This experience thrived my interest to better understand brain related diseases from a biological perspective. During my doctoral studies, I investigated the role of biological determinants of later-life depression, as well the complex link between depression and dementia within Maastricht University. Currently I work for the European Research Council funded CRISP project, in which we investigate cognitive ageing and dementia from a life course and social perspective, with a particular focus on inequalities related to sex/gender and socioeconomic position. In our research, we use the Lancet Commission framework of modifiable risk factors to prevent dementia, but we aim to better understand interrelationships of these risk factors, possible interactions with sex/gender and socioeconomic factors, and to which extent this list needs to be extended to include further risk factors. I am particularly interested in the contribution of hyperglycemia and vascular brain damage to later-life brain diseases. Furthermore, I am caught about recent research finding about menopausal changes that contribute to brain changes and cognitive outcomes. I recently took a leadership position in the collaborative Deep Dementia Phenotyping (DEMON) Network to facilitate networking on the topic of social aspects of dementia prevention.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET