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- Location:
- CMH Utrecht
Biography
Ieke Geelen has worked as a research assistant at the Expertise Centre MGGZ since September 2026. She graduated in 2026 with a Research Master's in Neuroscience from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, having earlier completed a Bachelor's in Health and Life Sciences at the same university. During her master's internship at University of Trento in Italy, she was researching brain stimulation (TMS-EEG). She investigated how pre-stimulus brain oscillations shape cortical excitability. Earlier research experience includes work on cellular ageing in human astrocytes (CNCR, VU Amsterdam) and on polygenic risk scores for Alzheimer's disease (VUmc).