CV Eefje Poppelaars

1. CV Eefje S. Poppelaars – es.poppelaars@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Eefje S. Poppelaars, BSc
Date of birth: 12 December 1988, Ridderkerk (the Netherlands)
Address: Eikenlaan 93, 2404 BL, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands
Telephone: +316-43936319
E-mail address: es.poppelaars@gmail.com
LinkedIn profile nl.linkedin.com/in/EefjePoppelaars
Education
2013 - July 2015
Psychology Research Master in Cognitive Neuroscience: University of Leiden, the Netherlands
Preliminary average grade: 8,3 (with honours; GPA = 4.0). Most important courses: Matlab
Programming for Data Analysis (at the University of Amsterdam); fMRI Data and Statistics;
Social Cognitive Neuroscience.
2010 - 2013
Bachelor of Psychology: University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Diploma average grade: 8,2
(GPA = 4.0). Most important electives: Honours Research Bachelor Project; Interdisciplinary
minor of Brain and Cognition; Clinical Neuropsychology.
2009 - 2010
HBO Applied Psychology: Fontys Hogeschool, Eindhoven. Propaedeutic average grade: 8,0
(GPA = 4.0)
2006 - 2009 HAVO-NG (profile Nature and Health): Kellebeek College, Breda
2001 - 2006 Athenaeum plus: Gemini College, Ridderkerk
Work experience
2013 - 2015
Research assistantship for Prof. P.M. Westenberg: ‘’Profiling endophenotypes in social anxiety
disorder’’. Most important responsibilities: Testing socially anxious families using EEG, ECG
and cortisol measures.
2013
Research assistantship for Dr. M.J.W. van der Molen: "The socially anxious heart: Cardiac
reactivity during social evaluative feedback processing." Most important responsibilities:
Analysing heart rate data; Writing a manuscript for publication (in preparation); Attending lab
meetings of the Social Anxiety & School Refusal group.
2013
Research assistantship for Prof. E.A. Crone: ‘’Intentional inhibition in adolescents and adults.’’
Most important responsibilities: Recruiting participants (young adults through university
website; adolescents through high-school); Testing 20 adolescents and 20 young adults in a
Matlab programmed application.
2010 - 2013
Graphic Designer at own company Inis Design. Most important responsibilities: Designing
logo’s, flyers, posters, etc.; Customer correspondence.
Internships
2014 - 2015
EEG master thesis: ‘’ Functional neural networks in social anxiety: Gender differences in EEG
topology during resting-state and speech anticipation’’. Supervisor: Dr. M.J.W. van der Molen
Most important responsibilities: Administering EEG to high- and low socially anxious students
and teaching EEG to (master)students; Attending and presenting at lab meetings; Analysing
neural connectivity using minimum spanning trees; Writing a master thesis and manuscript (in
preparation).
2015
fMRI data analysis internship: ‘’Gender differences in functional MRI connectivity related to social
phobia during rest’’ At the McMaster university, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Supervisors: Prof. L.A.
Schmidt and Alva Tang, BsC. Most important responsibilities: Analysing gender differences in
functional connectivity related to social phobia using FSL and PLS; Attending and presenting at lab
meetings; Attending the course: Advanced Developmental Psychopathology; Attending a three-
day conference of the Society of Research and Child Development in Philadelphia, USA; Writing a
report and manuscript of the results (in preparation).

2. CV Eefje S. Poppelaars – es.poppelaars@gmail.com
2014 - 2015
fMRI data analysis internship: ‘’Gender differences in brain regions processing social evaluative
feedback’’. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone and Dr. Melle J.W. van der Molen. Most
important responsibilities: Analysing gender differences of fMRI data using HRF, FIR and ROI
analysis; Writing an internship report and manuscript (in preparation).
2013
Extracurricular fMRI internship: ‘’Profiling endophenotypes in social anxiety disorder – a pilot
study ’’ Supervisors: Janna Marie Hoogendam, MSc and Prof. N.J.A. van der Wee. Most important
responsibilities: Recruiting participants; Completing a MRI safety course; Instructing and scanning
participants with a MRI scanner.
2012 - 2013
Honours Research Bachelor Project: ‘’Electrocortical dynamics underlying the processing of social
rejection feedback.’’ Supervisor: Dr. Melle J.W van der Molen. Awarded grade: 8,5. Most
important responsibilities: Writing and presenting a research proposal; Making E-Prime tasks;
Administering EEG and teaching EEG to (master)students; Analysing EEG and questionnaire data.
2012 - 2013
Brain and Cognition minor project: ‘’The effects of neurofeedback on intelligence.’’ Supervisor:
Dr. Michael Roberts. Awarded grade: 10 (Extended assessment available). Most important
responsibilities: Administering intelligence tests WAIS III (in English); Administering
neurofeedback (in English) and teaching it to master students;
Certificates and honours
2014
Winner of the student poster prize at the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition symposium: “Early
life experiences, from genes to cognition”.
2014 - 2015 First Aid (EHBO) certificate of the Red Cross with the Royal Dutch Society for first aid
2013 Attended summer course in Japanese 1 + 2 at the University of Leiden
2013
Participation in Honours Research Bachelor Project: third year Bachelor of Psychology extended
bachelor project for talented students
2012
Participation in Honours Lectures Programme: second year Bachelor of Psychology
extracurricular research programme for talented students
Volunteer work
2014 - Present Student member of the Research Master Educational Committee.
2013
Gave a neurofeedback demonstration at the Night of Art and Knowledge for the general public,
in collaboration with Dr. G.P.H. Band.
Computer proficiencies
FMRI Software Library (FSL), SPM 8 & 12, Partial Least Squares (PLS) (f)MRI data analysis
Brain Vision Analyzer 2, Fieldtrip EEG/ERP data analysis
SPSS, Matlab, R, EQS Statistical analysis
E-Prime Designing experimental tasks
Language proficiencies
Dutch Native speaker
English Fluent
References
Leiden University: Dr. M.J.W. Van der Molen; Prof. E.A. Crone; Prof. P.M. Westenberg
McMaster University: Prof. L.A. Schmidt

3. CV Eefje S. Poppelaars – es.poppelaars@gmail.com
Publications
Poppelaars, E.S., Harrewijn, A., Van der Molen, M.J.W., Westenberg, P.M. (In preparation). Functional neural
networks in social anxiety: Gender differences in EEG topology during resting-state and speech anticipation.
Poppelaars, E.S., Tang, A., Noseworthy, M.D. & Schmidt, L.A.S. (In preparation). Gender differences in resting
state functional connectivity and associations with social phobia.
Poppelaars, E.S., Crone, E.A., & Van der Molen, M.J.W. (In preparation). Gender differences in brain regions
processing social evaluative feedback.
Poppelaars, E.S. & Van der Molen, M.J.W. (In preparation). The socially anxious heart: Cardiac reactivity during
social evaluative feedback processing.
Van der Molen, M.J.W., Poppelaars, E.S., van Hartingsveldt, C.T.A., Harrewijn, A., Gunther Moor, B., and
Westenberg, P.M. (2014). Fear of negative evaluation modulates electrocortical and behavioral responses when
anticipating social evaluative feedback. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:936. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00936
Poppelaars, E.S. (2014). Reversing the effects of aging. Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition Blog.