Dr. Suzanne Van De Groep

Biography

Suzanne van de Groep is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, affiliated with the Erasmus SYNC Lab. Her research primarily focuses on behavioral neural development and prosocial behaviors during adolescence. She investigates the types of prosocial behaviors shaped by social contexts and individual differences, with recent projects exploring social temporal discounting, online prosocial behaviors, and the longitudinal brain development of adolescents in relation to giving and well-being. Suzanne's academic journey includes a cum laude research master's from Leiden University in 2016 and a Ph.D., where she contributed significantly to the ERC consolidator project 'Brainlinks,' a longitudinal three-wave fMRI study of 142 adolescents and their parents over several years. In February 2022, she defended her dissertation titled 'Growing Generosity? Unraveling effects of benefactor-, beneficiary-, and situational characteristics on the development of giving and neural correlates in adolescence,' supervised by Prof. Eveline Crone and Dr. Kiki Zanolie. Following her Ph.D., she undertook a 9-month postdoc in the Erasmus SYNC lab to further her research in developmental neuroscience, citizen science, and community engagement.

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