Professor Dr. Lotte Gerritsen

Biography

Lotte Gerritsen is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University. She holds a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the same institution and has completed postdoctoral research at the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Gerritsen received a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship and has previously been awarded the Veni fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Her research focuses on the interplay between the body, brain, and mind, particularly in relation to stress and its effects throughout the lifespan. She investigates how biomarkers such as sex hormones and stress hormones, combined with neuroimaging techniques (EEG, MRI), help to understand individual differences in emotion regulation and stress sensitivity. Her work explores how these biomarkers interact with neuropsychiatric outcomes, including depression and cognitive decline, as well as the impact of childhood trauma on brain structure. Additionally, Dr. Gerritsen is interested in aging and the philosophy of mind.

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