Lotte Gerritsen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology.

Short CV:

Dr. Gerritsen received her PhD at Utrecht University in Clinical Epidemiology, completed a postdoc at the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen and a postdoc at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, for the latter she received a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship.

She has previsouly been awarded a Veni fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and worked as an assistant professor at the department of Psychiatry of the VU medical Center in Amsterdam.

Research focus:

The overarching aim of her work is to clarify how biomarkers could be useful in clinical psychology. Currently, she is combining sex hormones, stress hormones, neuroimaging (EEG, MRI) and behavioral data to understand individual differences in emotion regulation and stress sensitivity using a lifespan approach.

Previous work includes how stress interacts with several biomarkers (including telomere length, DNA methylation and genetics) on neuropsychiatric outcomes (e.g. depression, cognitive decline, structural brain) and cross-sectional neuroimaging of depression and childhood trauma.

She is also much interested in aging and philosophy of mind.

Grants & Awards:

2022 Dynamics of Youth grant 'Oral contraception and stress regulation in adolescents'
together with Dr. Stefanie Nelemans and Dr. Marijke Achterberg

2021 Alzheimer NL research grant 'Sex differences in dementia incidence'
in collaboration with UMC Utrecht, Dr. M. Geerlings

2020 Forte Grant - Swedish Research Foundation 'Work stress and brain aging'
in collaboration with Dr. Hui-Xin Wang, Stockholm University

2019 UU Research Grant 'Impact of contraceptive use on brain and emotion regulation'

2018 Alzheimer NL research grant 'Late-life depression and brain aging'
in collaboration with UMC Utrecht, Dr. M. Geerlings

2014 Forte Grant - Swedish Research Foundation 'Healthy Aging'
in collaboration with prof Nancy Pedersen, Karolinska Insititute

2013 ZonMW Veni grant 'The stressed brain'

2013 travel grant Society of Biological Psychiatry

2012 KI research grant 'Stress and cognitive aging'

2012 Lundbeck foundation research grant 'Stress and DNA methylation

2012 Poster award Society of Biological Psychiatry
‘Stressful life events and longitudinal telemore length decline’

2012 KI research grant 'Stress and telomere length'

2011 Individual Marie Curie fellowship  EU FP7 people program
'Stress, aging and the brain'

2008 Travel grant Alzheimer NL

2007 Travel grant Bright Conference EU