Main research interest is understanding the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and depression. She is interested in biases in information processing such as attentional and interpretive bias, implicit associations, and memory processes; how these processes drive anxiety problems and impact upon treatment success. Current projects focus on the dynamic interplay of symptoms and underlying mechanisms in daily life to improve the understanding of (math) anxiety and psychopatholgy and its treatment (ESM measures, dynamic transition models). The research has an experimental and clinical focus. 

Prof. Salemink is a senior member of the Dutch-Flemish research program Experimental Psychopathology (https://epp-research.eu/), fellow in the consortium New Science of Mental Disorders (https://www.nsmd.eu/), PI in the consortium math anxiety (https://rekenemoties.nl/), advisory board member Assocation for Cognitive Bias and Modification (https://acbm-association.org/), and involved in shaping research at the Altrecht Academic Anxiety Center (https://www.altrecht.nl/topggz-academisch-angstcentrum/).