Current lab members

April 2023, clockwise from left: Jamie Laport, Marijn Coers, Amy de Bruijn, Mohammed Mudarris, Rebecca Schaefer, Helmke Jansen, Elise Besemer, Myrto Petratza, Alessandro Palumbo, Pauline Schreurs.
Missing: Theo Dimitriadis, Joram van Ketel, Anne Nijboer, Hidde Heuser, Tanya Murphy, Sophie Eustace.
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Dr. Rebecca Schaefer
Associate Professor
Health, Medical & Neuropsychology unit;
Institute for Psychology, as well as:
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
Royal Conservatoire The Hague; Sonology
r.s.schaefer ‘at’ fsw.leidenuniv.nl
+31 (0)71 527 6748
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Mohammed Mudarris, MSc
PhD candidate (main promotor: Dr. Judy Veldhuijzen & Prof. Serge Rombouts)
Fellowship Jeddah University
Thesis topic: Neural plasticity in cued movement learning

Theo Dimitriadis, MA
PhD Candidate & Music therapist (main promotor: Prof. Andrea Evers)
Amstelring, Amsterdam
Thesis topic: The role of motivation in rehabilitation

Ned McGowan, MMus
Leiden Academy for Creative and Performing Arts
PhD candidate (main promotor: Prof Marcel Cobussen)
Thesis title: The human speed of music

Marije Derks-Dijkman, MSc
Clinical Neuropsychologist, PhD Candidate (main promotor: Prof Roy Kessels, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Project: Music and memory functioning in MCI and dementia

Marijn

Marijn Coers, MSc
Researcher
Projects: Music in times of the COVID pandemic, Musical EMDR in EEG, Sonification systems for motor learning

Jeannette van Ditzhuizen, MSc
Researcher
Project: Music lessons for vulnerable groups

Joram van Ketel, MSc
Teaching & Research support
Projects: Procedural learning in expert musicians

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Alessandro Palumbo
MSc-Res research intern
Project: Sonification systems for motor learning

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Sophie Eustace
Research support
Projects: Musical skills and cognitive-motor interference

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Tanya Murphy
MSc thesis student
Projects: Musical skills and cognitive-motor interference

Previous members

December 2020: Typical online meeting with part of the group, from top left to right bottom: Marijn Coers, Joram van Ketel, Kim Ridell di Lorenzo, Theo Dimitriadis, Maria Diaz Castiella, Mladena Aleksic, Mohammed Mudarris, Dariya Akan, and Johanna Perschl.
Missing: Laura Kuijper, Eric van Honk, Jonathan Wong Chung, Marije Dijkman, Ned McGowan, Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen.
January 2019: Celebrating the new year with part of the group, from left to right: Maya Classen, Lisa Frenkel, Cyriel van Veelen, Sherilynn van der Schoor, Benedetta de la Rosa, Johanna Perschl (back), Annick Den Hartog (half hidden!), Rebecca Schaefer and Mohammed Mudarris.
Summer of 2018: Enjoying some Leiden sunshine with part of the group, from left to right: Annick Den Hartog, Georgina Floridou, Mohammed Mudarris, Rebecca Schaefer, Victoria Chapellier and Marijn Coers.
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The part of the group that was present at ESCOM in the summer of 2017: Marijn Coers, Annick Den Hartog, Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen, Rebecca Schaefer, Georgina Floridou, Elianne van Egmond, Iza Korsmit. And the photo-bombing ESCOM photographer of course!
Lab members 2016
Lab members January 2016, left to right: Joyce de Bruin, Daniel Myles, Rebecca Schaefer, Elianne van Egmond, Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen, Marijn Coers. Missing: Tessa Overboom, Jade Verheijen

Postdocs

Dr. Georgina Floridou
British Academy Fellow
Primary affiliation: University of Sheffield, UK
Postdoc
Projects: EEG of moving to imagined music, Imagery questionnaire validation

PhD’s

Susan Williams
Leiden Academy for Creative and Performing Arts
PhD candidate (main promotor: Prof Henk Borgdorff)
Thesis title: Practicing Musical Intention: a holistic approach to developing musicians’ expertise

Research assistants & interns

Laura Kuijper, project: SNAAR festival
Drashti Shah, project: validation of Dutch version of the Gold-MSI
Nina Hoogerland, project: SNAAR festival
Louise Meyser, projects: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children, SNAAR festival
Maksims Libermanis, project: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children
Theodora Christia, project: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children
Jule Hafermann, project: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children
Mladena Aleksic, project: Music preference and cortisol
Loubna Boutalbi, project: Online studies of music and attention
Maria Diaz Castiella, project: Music preference and cortisol
Armands Zelčs, projects: various
Vani Pillay (Utrecht University), project: Music and gaming
Andres von Schnehen (University of Amsterdam), project: musical reward and 7T imaging
Iza Korstmit (University of Amsterdam), project: Rhythm and pleasure
Lisa Frenkel, project: live EEG of music listening
Sofia Kalaitzaikis, project: 7T imaging of basal ganglia
Ayesha Hamilton, project: Music imagery and motor learning
Dion Stevers (University of Amsterdam), project: pleasure in 7T imaging
Mick Roché (University of Amsterdam), project: pleasure in 7T imaging
Benedetta de la Rosa, project: Music and motor learning
Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen (University of Amsterdam), project: Music familiarity and cognition in older adults
Marijn Coers, project: EEG of moving to imagined music
Joyce de Bruin, projects: all
Daniel Myles, projects: Musical EMDR

MSc thesis students

Vivian de Graaff, project: Procedural learning and aging in musicians
Adrian Gutierrez, project: Dual-task interference in musical processing
Laura Kuijper, project: Syncopation and pleasure
Allyah Hassell, project: Dual-task interference in musical processing
Theodora Christia, project: Musical games and attention
Linda Alphenaar, project: Heredity of rhythm skills and cognitive ability
Marina Marrero Polegre, project: Procedural learning and aging in musicians
Nina Hoogerland, project: Procedural learning and aging in musicians
Eric van Honk, project: Rhythmic complexity, overstimulation, and musical expertise
Jonathan Wong Chung, project: Longitudinal effects of music training
Dariya Akan, project: Cognitive effects of music listening in elderly
Kim Di Lorenzo, project: Music therapy screening instrument
Mara van der Burgt, project: Rhythmic skills in autism
Juliet Thiele, project: Rhythmic skills in autism
Donatella Fontana, project: Syncopation, repetition and urge to move
Meike Pellemans, project: Music preference and cortisol
Alexandra Heidelberger, project: Music preference and cortisol
Dion de Lange, project: Syncopation, repetition and urge to move
Sherilynn van der Schoor, project: Predictors of cued movement
Maya Classen, project: Predictors of cued movement
Cyriel van Veelen, project: Overstimulation and fatigue in cued movement
Johanna Perschl, project in Leipzig with Dr. Tom Fritz: Music-based exercise in clinical populations
Mohammed Mudarris, project: Predictors of cued movement
Angie Tryfona, project: Predictors of cued movement
Hella van Muijden, project: Clinical screening of musical functioning
Sophie Kroes, project: Rhythm complexity and pleasure
Victoria Chapellier, project: Cue complexity and cued motor learning
Anna Maria Trampadourou, project: Imagery ability and cued motor learning
Iria Megagianni, project: Influence of instruction type on cued motor learning
Celeste van Wendel, project: Imagery & aging
Fida Buijse, project: Imagery & aging
Roxanne Espineira, project: Imagery & aging
Feya Nolet, project: Music familiarity and cognition in older adults
Chloë Priem, project: Music-induced arousal and mental rotation
Andy Meijer, project: Emotion, gender and mental rotation in older adults
Annick Den Hartog, project: EEG of moving to imagined movement
Angelique van ‘t Hof, project: Cognitive aspects of moving to imagined music
Frouke Hardeveld de Jong, project: Imagery ability and ageing
Muazzez Demirel, project: Cognitive aspects of movement and metaphor
Marijn Coers, project: Musical EMDR
Elianne van Egmond, project: Musical cue complexity and motor timing
Marlou Gosman, project: Cognitive aspects of movement and metaphor
Tessa Overboom, project: Music preference and cognition