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My clinical and research interests focus on the understanding of interactions between brain, cognition and behavior, as well as the implementation of such knowledge in the assessment and treatment of brain dysfunction, caused by psychiatric or neurological disorders. My research interests focus on the investigation of the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, personality and everyday functioning changes in patients with dementia, especially frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

My area of expertise is psychology and my main scientific interests revolve around dementia, memory and psychotherapy.
My main research project is on the neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. Specifically, its goal is to map the neuropsychiatric symptoms in different subtypes of dementia using biomarkers, cognitive abilities and personality traits.

Integrated care & palliative care for patients with dementia or stroke, large dataset study in epidemiology and health service research, and education in clinical ethics

Green care farming research for people with dementia

Speech and Language Therapy relating to dementia (communication and dysphagia)

People with dementia prefer to live at home for as long as possible. Care professionals play an important role in creating living environments that enable to live well with dementia. They are, however, often insufficiently equipped or facilitated to do so. Different ways of learning and development are needed to accelerate innovation in dementia care. Learning Communities provide possibilities to collaborate with multiple stakeholders in dementia care to jointly learn, work, and innovate. In the ENABLE-DEM project, we aim to investigate, strengthen and connect four dementia care Learning Communities to create environments that enable to live well with dementia. The overall aims are therefore: 1. Investigate and support LCs that are focused on establishing environments that enable to live well with dementia and 2. Provide insights into the design, development, value and sustainability of multistakeholder LCs that foster lifelong learning and development. To this end, we collaborate with four existing LCs taking a realist action research approach to ultimately realize enabling environments for people with dementia and their family caregivers

Extrinsic factors affecting individuals living with dementia's abilities to complete daily tasks. Main focus is the role of the carer (type and amount of support given/needed) and the physical environment.