Public presentations

Date Event
2025

The seventh, 2025, edition of the Dutch Brain Olympiad will happen at March 16th, at the Latijnse School in Nijmegen. 

2024 Workshop (Hands on, bringing Science to Society) at the Donders Discussions
2024

I presented at the conference of the Vereniging Begaafdheidsprofielscholen 22 March. You can download the slides here

2024 We will  be at the Nijmegen market for the Brain Awareness Week with the BrainHelpDesk , Pint of Science Nijmegen and the Dutch BrainBee and many more!
2024 The sixth Dutch BrainBee will be held in Nijmegen at February 10th!
2023 The BrainHelpDesk and Dutch BrainBee were at the pop-up Donders Citylab for Serious Request
2023 We were at the Nijmegen market for the Brain Awareness Week with the BrainHelpDesk , Pint of Science Nijmegen and the Dutch BrainBee and many more!
2023 Radboud Try-out lecture for high school students
2023 The fifth Dutch BrainBee was held in Amsterdam and Nijmegen – I gave the keynote lecture!
2022 The fourth Dutch BrainBee was held online – this year team Groningen joined!
2022 Radboud Try-out lecture for high school students
2021 The third Dutch BrainBee was held online 
2021 Donders Career Day
2021 International Women’s Day: “Students to Professors, Inspiring NeurotechEU Women”: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/students-to-professors
2021 Tweeted one week for Twitter account ‘NL_Wetenschap’
2020 Want to hear me? I was interviewed at “NPO Focus” in the night from October 5th to 6th
2020 The second Dutch BrainBee had rounds in Amsterdam (January 25th) and in Nijmegen (February 1st)
2019 The first Dutch BrainBee! – Donders Institute Nijmegen
2019 A peek into the brain, how neuroscience helps society – Lux theatre Nijmegen
2018

Foundations of Cognition — Cracking the neural code — some thoughts and ideas from a computational perspective

2018

A-Eskwadraat symposium Utrecht: “Natuurkunde en neuroscience: de hersenen begrijpen door ze te modelleren” 

2018

SURE symposium Rotterdam: “Understanding the brain by making models” 

2011

De hersenen: een enorme machine zonder gebruiksaanwijzing (the brain: a huge machine without instructions), Playful Science, Zaventem, Belgium

2011

Biofysica van de hersenen (Biophysics and the brain), Science Symposium, Raayland college, Venray, the Netherlands

2009

Biofysica van de hersenen (Biophysics and the brain), WND conference, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands

2009

Natuurkunde en neuroscience (Physics and neuroscience), keynote speaker teacher meeting NiNa, the Netherlands

2009

De hersenen: een enorme machine zonder gebruiksaanwijzing (the brain: a huge machine without instructions), finals Very Short Introduction Contest, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2005 Guest appearances in Blinq, a children’s program on national tv, where I explained experiments from Proefjes.
2003

Enthousiasme is besmettelijk, Opening academic year of the University of Amsterdam.