Dr. Elke Vlemincx

Biography

Dr. Elke Vlemincx is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Department of Health Sciences. She obtained her PhD in Psychology from KU Leuven in 2010 and has received personal postdoctoral funding that allowed her to work internationally in locations such as Ann Arbor, Hamburg, Seattle, and Louvain-La-Neuve. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests focus on the dynamic regulation of psychophysiological processes underlying mental health and well-being, investigating the mechanisms of stress, emotion regulation, psychophysiological flexibility, resilience, and interoception. She aims to optimize mental health and well-being interventions through her research on respiratory psychophysiology, using breathing as a tool for dynamic regulation and demonstrating the bidirectional associations between breathing patterns and psychophysiological stress regulation. Dr. Vlemincx has pioneered research on the psychological functions of sighs in relation to breathing regulation and emotion stress regulation. Additionally, she is dedicated to studying the embedding of socio-emotional skills in secondary and higher education to enhance students' well-being, resilience, and employability. Dr. Vlemincx has published extensively in leading journals such as Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology, and the European Respiratory Journal. She served as the past president of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology from 2020 to 2021.

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