Mats Abrahamse

Mats Abrahamse is a PhD candidate at the Hector Research Institute for Education Science and Psychology.

He is interested in curiosity and motivation and aims to study the underlying mechanisms behind these phenomena.

Currently, his project focuses on examining how curiosity evolves across the lifespan and identifying the variables that affect this change.

Curriculum Vitae

since 04/2024
PhD candidate

at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology at University of Tübingen

10/2023 - 01/2024
Research intern

at Kochi University of Technology (Japan)

09/2022 - 10/2023
Research intern

at Donders Centre for Cognition (Netherlands)

09/2021 - 07/2023
Master of Science: Cognitive Neuroscience

at University of Radboud (Netherlands)

10/2020 - 09/2021
Student assistant

at University of Utrecht (Netherlands)

09/2018 - 07/2021
Bachelor of Science: Psychology

at University of Utrecht (Netherlands)