Dr F. Klumpers (Floris)

Floris Klumpers is an associate professor at the Behavioural Science Institute and the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. His main research interest is explaining individual differences in anxiety and stress by studying the underlying psychophysiological and neural pathways. As main tools he uses fear and stress induction methods combined with assessments of autonomic and somatic markers (startle, HR(V), SCR), functional neuroimaging and approach/avoidance behaviour. Currently, he works on creating a bridge between fundamental neurobiological insights and mechanism-inspired interventions to reduce anxiety and stress in the following three projects:
1. A project investigating the individual differences in the fundamental neurobiology of costly avoidance behaviour in healthy subjects and anxiety patients (Phd student: Anneloes Hulsman; NWO research talent grant).
2. A project that develops an immersive Virtual reality game to train freezing reactions to reduce maladaptive avoidance (PhD students: Johan Posthuma & Teun-Pieter de Snoo; funded by Dutch police as follow-up to a NWO Professional games for Professional skills grant)
3. A large-scale longitudinal project on psychobiological predictors of stress-related resilience in police officers (PhD students: Mahur Hashemi & Wei Zhang; NWO VICI project with Prof. Karin Roelofs)

• Perception, Action and Decision-making

• Affective Neuroscience