I am a neuropsychologist and study autism and ADHD since 1998. I started my professional life as a researcher with a study of the neuropsychological overlaps and differences between children (age 6 till 12) with autism and/or ADHD (PhD project 1998-2002 VU). Since then I focus mainly on cognition in neurodiverse people across the life span. I still focus on autism and a bit on ADHD. Myresearch focus lies on experimental and descriptive studies but we also ran a few applied intervention studies.

Currently I am a clinical neuropsychology professor (since 2018) and a professor by special appointment regarding autism (since 2011) at the Psychology department, section Brain and Cognition. See also my UvA website for more details regarding my background. My team is mainly working on my VICI project (NWO grant) on autism and ageing which is a follow up project based on the findings in my former VIDI grant (NWO grant).