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PhD Recipients

Name: Maarten van der Smagt

Title of Dissertation: Integration and Segregation Mechanisms in Human Motion Vision

Defence Date: 17 June 1999

Distinction: Summa Cum Laude (Co-supervised with Wim van der Grind)

Awards:

  • Dissertation Prize 1998–1999, Dutch Psychonomic Society (December 1999)

  • Recipient of a VENI grant

Current Position: Full Professor at Utrecht University

Name: Ryota Kanai
Title of Dissertation: Dynamic Inference in Visual Information Processing
Defence Date: 6 September 2005
Distinction: Summa Cum Laude

Awards:

  • Best Dissertation Award 2005–2007, Dutch Psychonomic Society

  • Nominee, ASSC William James Award 2008

Current Position: CEO at Araya Brain Imaging, Tokyo, Japan

Name: Christiaan Paffen
Title of Dissertation: Binocular Rivalry in Context
Defence Date: 6 September 2005

Awards:

  • NWO VENI Grant

  • NWO Rubicon Grant

Current Position: Associate Professor, Utrecht University

Name: Martin Groen
Title of Dissertation: Realising Goals through Dialogues: Larger Purposes and Their Markers
Defence Date: 11 November 2005 (in collaboration with Nyenrode Business University)
Current Position: Innovation & Data Lead @ Ebbinge – Executive Search, Interim Management, Executive Development

Name: Bjorn Vlaskamp
Title of Dissertation: Eye Movements, Search and Crowding
Defence Date: 4 April 2006

Awards:

  • NWO Rubicon Grant

Current Position: Lead Human Vision Scientist and Manager at Google

Name: Jeroen Benjamins
Title of Dissertation: Spatiotemporal Attentional Constraints in Perception
Defence Date: 10 January 2008
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Utrecht University

Name: Meike Grol
Title of Dissertation: Parieto-Frontal Circuitry in Visuo-Motor Control
Defence Date: 18 January 2008
Current Position: Coordinator, Master Human-Centered AI and PANORAIMA at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht; Independent Author

Name: Marjolein Kammers
Title of Dissertation: Bodies in the Brain
Defence Date: 12 December 2008

Awards:

  • Rubicon Grant Recipient

  • Runner-Up Dissertation Award 2008–2009, Dutch Psychonomic Society

Current Position: Researcher, University of Melbourne

Name: Gianluca Giorgolo
Title of Dissertation: Space and Time in Our Hands
Defence Date: 15 September 2010
Current Position: Research Fellow, King’s College London

Name: Hinze Hogendoorn
Title of Dissertation: Time Insight
Defence Date: 28 September 2010
Distinction: Summa Cum Laude

Awards:

  • Runner-Up Dissertation Award 2009–2011, Dutch Psychonomic Society

  • ARC Australia X Grant

Current Position: Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Name: Katinka van der Kooij
Title of Dissertation: Perception of 3D Shape in Complex Scenes
Defence Date: 13 October 2010
Current Position: Research Associate, Amsterdam University Medical Centre

Name: Jelmer de Vries
Title of Dissertation: Temporal Integration in Scale Space Search
Defence Date: 8 September 2011
Current Position: Invited Researcher, University of Giessen

Name: Hubert Fonteyn
Title of Dissertation: Diffusion Tensor Imaging in the Brain
Defence Date: 21 October 2011
Current Position: Senior Risk Management Consultant, Finalyse

Name: Tobias Borra
Title of Dissertation: Binocular Combination
Defence Date: 4 June 2012
Current Position: Research Scientist, Philips Lighting

Name: Sjoerd Stuit
Title of Dissertation: Binocular Integration
Defence Date: 24 January 2014
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Utrecht University

Name: Vivian Holten
Title of Dissertation: The Influence of Visual Stimuli on Posture
Defence Date: 11 May 2015
Current Position: Software Developer, Eurocom Group

Name: Surya Gayet
Title of Dissertation: From the Blind Eye to the Mind’s Eye
Defence Date: 24 June 2016
Distinction: Summa Cum Laude

Awards:

  • Dissertation Award, Foundation Praemium Erasmianum

  • VENI Grant, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2022)

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Utrecht University

Name: Martijn Barendregt
Title of Dissertation: Two Eyes: One Vision
Defence Date: 2 September 2016
Current Position: Team Lead, TreeHouse/Paraius (Postdoc at the University of Amsterdam)

Name: Wietske Zuiderbaan
Title of Dissertation: Vision in Context: From Behaviour to Neurons
Defence Date: 7 July 2017
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging

Name: Jim Maarseveen
Title of Dissertation: It’s About Time: Studying the Encoding of Duration
Defence Date: 13 October 2020
Current Position: ICT/Engineering Group, Utrecht University

Name: Renell Rodrigues
Title of Dissertation: Technology and Mental Health: Exploring Attentional Bias from an Experimental Psychology Perspective Using Virtual Reality
Defence Date: 15 October 2025
Current Position: —

Connections

  • Address: School of Psychology, Griffith Taylor Building (A19), The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

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