SOCIAL RODENT - Key Persons


Alina Baldauf

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant ( SHK )
Alina Baldauf is working towards her BSc. in Psychology at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. She has been with the Lab since 2017.

Dr. Sander van Gurp

Dr. van Gurp completed his PhD in pavlovian reinforcement learning driven by vicarious social rewards in 2021. Sander van Gurp completed a bachelor degree in psychology at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Subsequently, he enrolled in the two year Neuroscience program at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where he performed a research internship on the role of the cerebellum in sensorimotor integration. Dr. Sander van Gurp has successfully defended his PhD and is now at the Comparative Psychology department

Jochen Hoog

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant ( SHK )
Jochen Hoog is working towards his BSc. in Psychology at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. He has been with the Lab since 2016.

Ms. Mireille van Berkel

Job Titles:
  • Student
Mireille van Berkel completed a BSc. in Psychology and a Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience both at Maastricht University. As part of the former, she embarked on a semester abroad at Sydney University. As part of the latter, she performed a research internship at the University of Oxford, during which she explored the neuropharmacology of a novel lithium mimetic. She started her PhD in the Social Rodent Lab in 2016 and left in 2018.

Sami Hamdan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant ( SHK )
Sami Hamdan is working towards his BSc. in Psychology at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. He has been with the Lab since 2016.