Meet the team

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Dr. Carmen-Silva Sergiou

Dr. Carmen-Silva Sergiou is a forensic neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher at the Youth at Risk department of the Amsterdam UMC.
Her research focuses on emotion-regulated aggression, using innovative, non-invasive real-time neuroscience technologies to study and modulate the psychological and neural processes underlying aggression in forensic populations. Through her research line, FORNEUROTECH, she aims to integrate neuroscience and technology to advance forensic care.

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Dr. Josanne van Dongen

Dr. Josanne van Dongen is an Associate Professor of Forensic Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where she leads the forensic psychology education within the Master’s program in Forensic and Legal Psychology. Her work focuses on electrophysiology and brain modulation to examine the role of empathy in relation to callous–unemotional traits to develop novel interventions aimed at reducing the risk of violence.

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Prof. dr. Maaike Kempes

Prof. Maaike Kempes works at the Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (NIFP). From this position, she also holds a special professorship in Forensic Neuropedagogy at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University. Her chair focuses on understanding how neurobiology contributes to the assessment and diagnosis of individuals who display delinquent behavior, with a particular emphasis on young people involved in the criminal justice system.

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Prof. dr. Lucres Nauta-Jansen

Lucres Nauta-Jansen is Professor of Translational Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosocial Care at the Amsterdam University Medical Center in Amsterdam. She leads the At-Risk Youth section, which studies young people displaying disruptive or delinquent behavior—from those at high risk of contact with the justice system to youths in forensic child and adolescent psychiatry.

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Dr. Ilse van de Groep

Dr. Ilse van de Groep is a Healthy Start Fellow working in the SYNC lab and the Department of Clinical Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses on the behavioral and neural development of antisocial behavior in young adulthood and on strategies to support and motivate young adults with antisocial behavior and addiction problems in pursuing their long-term goals.

FORNEUROTECH members

  • Prof. dr. James Blair

    Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Prof. dr. Adrian Raine

    University of Pennsylvania

  • Dr. Inti Brazil

    Radboud University

  • Dr. Frank Jonker

    Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology | GGZ Noord

  • Dr. Hanneke Kip

    University Twente

  • Sterre van Haeringen

    Amsterdam University Medical Centre

  • Carmen Mendes de Leon

    Amsterdam University Medical Centre

  • Dr. Valeria Gazzola

    Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience

  • Anouk van Zwieten

    Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience

  • Prof. dr. Eveline Crone

    Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Melanie Franse

    Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Dr. Danique Smeijers

    Radboud University

  • Dr. Sjors Ligthart

    Tilburg University

  • Dr. Jochem Jansen

    Leiden University

  • Kitty de Vries

    Erasmus University

  • Lisa Klein Haneveld

    University of Twente | Transfore

  • Willem in 't Hout

    De Pompestichting

  • Dr. Peter de Looff

    Tilburg University

  • Jeroen Dijkmans

    Amsterdam University Medical Centre

  • Eddy Santino

    CleVR

  • Ricardo Abbas

    CleVR

  • Guntur Sandino

    CleVR

  • Sabina Roza

    Director Pieter Baan Centrum

  • Dr. Katy de Kogel

    WODC (Research and Data Centre)

  • Prof. dr. Gerben Meynen

    University of Utrecht

  • Dr. Reshmi Marhe

    Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Dr. Premika Boedhoe

    Expertise Centre Forensic Psychiatry

  • Prof. dr. Bruno Verschuere

    University of Amsterdam

  • Dr. Thimo van der Pol

    Inforsa | Amsterdam Unicersity Medical Centre

  • Elyan Aarts

    University of Amsterdam

  • Merel Leijse

    Amsterdam University Medical Centre

  • Dr. Annelinde Vandenbroucke

    Amsterdam University Medical Centre

  • Dr. Siri Noordermeer

    Expertise Centre Forensic Psychiatry

  • Dr. Joan van Horn

    De Waag

  • Juliette van Hutten

    De Waag

  • Lilian Kuipers

    Inforsa | Arkin

  • Dr. Matthe Scholten

    Ruhr University Bochum

  • Emily Soong

    Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Adrian Bontje

    Amsterdam University Medical Centre

  • Amir Tavassoli

    Enlighten Empathy VR

  • Dr. Hanneke Scholten

    University of Twente

  • Dr. Jesse Meijers

    Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Jasmijn Verhage

    De Nieuwe Kans

  • Merle Bredero-Ondris

    State Youth Detention Centre (RSJ)

  • Prof. dr. Patrice Renaud

    Université du Québec en Outaouais

  • Sterre de Geus

    VU University

  • Dr. Sioui Maldonado Bouchard 

    McGill University

  • Dr. Sarah Wood

    Palo Alto University

  • Prof. dr. Nathan Kolla 

    Swinburne University of Technology

  • Dr. Lieke van Domburg

    iHub

  • Diana Margian

    St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

  • Dr. Lisa Wagels

    UK Aachen

  • Dr. Ute Habel

    UK Aachen

  • Dr. Nisali Perera

    Maastricht University

  • Prof. dr. Christoph Bublitz

    University of Hamburg

  • Madeleine Kirschstein

    University Psychiatric Clinics Basel

  • Dr. Mariska van Steensel

    University Medical Centre Utrecht

  • Prof. Eric García-López

    Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales CDMX, Mexico

  • Prof. dr. Fernando Barbosa

    University of Porto

  • Prof. dr. dr. Jean-Louis van Gelder

    Director - Max Planck Institute for Crime, Security & Law

  • Linda Rosar

    Max Planck Institute for Crime, Security & Law

  • Prof. dr. Goran Arbanas

    European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Institute – BHIDAPA

  • Victor Buwalda (MD)

    GGD Amsterdam

  • Prof. dr. Wim Veling

    University Medical Center Groningen