Current projects – Esther Aarts, PhD

See RU profile page & group page for a description of our research
MOCIA: Maintaining Optimal Cognitive function In Ageing – a personalised lifestyle prevention approach
- WP3: Gut-brain mechanisms; PhD student: Mark van Loenen, postdoc: ; PIs: Esther Aarts & Joukje Oosterman
- Knowledge utilisation: Yolanda Kooijmans
- grant: NWO crossover (main applicant: Esther Aarts, co-applicants)
The obesity spiral: inflammation and effortless fast food choices
- PhD student: Judith Scholing, postdoc:
- grant: ERC starting grant (applicant: Esther Aarts)
Understanding brain mechanisms of cancer-related fatigue: a sickness-behaviour approach
- PhD student: Britt Lambregts; co-supervisor: Esther Aarts; PI: Marieke van der Schaaf
- grant: KWF (applicant: Marieke van der Schaaf)
Food & Cognition network
- scientific coordinator: Esther Aarts
- grant: cluster- & netwerk EFRO (applicants: Thea van Kemenade, Esther Aarts, i3B, Kees de Graaf, Hermie Hermens)
BriteN: The effects of nutrition on neurocognitive development of spatial cognition (WP4)
- PhD student: Claudia van Dun; trainees: Ilaria Lisi (alum), Bianca Borsarini (alum), David Boverhoff (alum); PIs: Esther Aarts & Gabriele Janzen
- grant: EFRO (applicants: Thea van Kemenade, Amanda Kiliaan, Judith Homberg, Esther Aarts, Gabriele Janzen)
Satisfaction: Elucidating the neurocognitive mechanisms controlling satiation (WP2 + WP3)
- PhD student: Iris Duif; postdoc: Joost Wegman (alum); research assistants: Britt Lambregts, Eline van Petersen (alum); trainee: Eva Ketel (alum); PI: Esther Aarts
- grant: NWO – Food, Cognition and Behaviour (applicants: Kees de Graaf, Esther Aarts, Paul Smeets, Thea van Kemenade)