Peter Smittenaar
This is my academic CV, last updated January 2016. For a CV including professional experience, see LinkedIn
BSc (2007) Molecular life sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
MSc (2010) Cognitive neuroscience (cum laude), Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience under supervision of Prof. Roshan Cools, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
PhD (2015) Wellcome Trust-funded 4-year PhD in neuroscience, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging under supervision of Prof. Ray Dolan, University College London, UK
2015 | Sir Henry Wellcome 4-year postdoctoral fellowship (link) |
2013 | Best Contributed Paper, reinforcement learning and decision-making, Princeton |
2013 | Best poster award, Intentional Inhibition Conference, UCL |
2013 | Wellcome Trust public engagement grant for The Great Brain Experiment |
2010 | Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD scholarship |
2009 | Business Development Fund, start-up funding for science job board |
2007 | Quo Vadis travel grant, 5 months at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
2016 | Jan 27 | Crowdsourcing Biomarker Analysis | Data Science for Pharma Europe | |
2015 | Nov 11 | Harnessing The Power of The Crowd to Beat Cancer Sooner | Big Data and Analytics Innovation Summit | |
2015 | Nov 3 | Investigation of methods to improve the accuracy of citizen scientists in detecting cancer cells from images of tissue microarray cores | National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) conference | |
2014 | Nov 27 | Reinforcement learning across cortex and basal ganglia | Affective brain talk, Sharot lab, UCL | |
2014 | Oct 29 | Reinforcement learning across cortex and basal ganglia | Cools lab talk, Donders Institute, Nijmegen | |
2014 | Aug 1 | Proactive and reactive executive control in aging | 4th Einstein Fellowship Symposium on Decision-Making, Berlin | |
2013 | Nov 8 | Manipulating model-based and model-free reinforcement learning through electric stimulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex | Society for Neuroscience, San Diego | |
Oct 25 | Manipulating model-based and model-free control through neurostimulation of prefrontal cortex | Reinforcement learning and decision-making, Princeton | ||
Sept 25 | Preparing for selective inhibition within frontostriatal loops | Intentional inhibition conference, UCL | ||
Apr 25 | Preparing for selective inhibition within frontostriatal loops | 3rd Einstein Fellowship symposium, Berlin School of Mind and Brain | ||
Feb 8 | Controlling your actions: modulating the competition between decision-making systems, and proactive response inhibition | PhD upgrade at FIL | ||
2012 | Nov 12 | Manipulating the balance between model-based and model-free value-based choice through L-DOPA and transcranial magnetic stimulation | FENS Neurobiology of Emotion, Italy | |
Oct 14 | Neural mechanisms of selective action inhibition | SfN | ||
July 18 | Dopamine enhances model-based over model-free behavior | FENS | ||
June 29 | Dopamine enhances model-based over model-free behavior | UCL Neuroscience symposium | ||
May 25 | Dopamine enhances model-based over model-free behavior | ppt | 2nd Einstein Fellowship Symposium, Berlin School of Mind and Brain | |
2011 | Apr 28 | Balancing act: dopamine in model-based and model-free behaviour | 1st Einstein Fellowship Symposium on Decision-making, Berlin School of Mind and Brain | |
2010 | July 14 | Effects of dopaminergic medication on value-based decision-making in Parkinson’s disease | Joint ‘cognitive control’ labmeeting, DCCN |
2014 | Oct 30 | Using transcranial magnetic stimulation to probe cortical and sub-cortical function | Donders Discussions | |
2014 | Oct 16 | General Linear Model | SPM course | |
2014 | Apr 16 | Transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct-current stimulation, deep brain stimulation (with Helen Barron and Eileen Joyce) | Computational Psychiatry course | |
2013 | May 29 | Good and Bad practices in programming | ICN Matlab course | |
2012 | Mar 14 | Introduction to connectivity: PPI and SEM | ppt | Methods for Dummies, UCL |
2011 | Dec 14 | Basis of the BOLD signal | ppt | Methods for Dummies, UCL |
Dec 7 | Bayes for Beginners | ppt | Methods for Dummies, UCL | |
2010 | July 8 | Non-orthogonal regressors: concepts and consequences | ppt | fMRI analysis methods meeting, DCCN |
Jan 7 | Scanning patients using fMRI | fMRI analysis methods meeting, DCCN |
2012-3 | 7 mo. | Alessandra De Petrillo, Clinical Neuroscience masters (model-based/model-free control and threat). |
2013 | Wellcome Trust-funded public engagement for Brain Awareness week, The Great Brain Experiment |
2012-3 | Brain Meeting seminar series, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging |
2011-2 | Methods for Dummies course, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging |
2005-7 | Sigma symposium organising committee; course committee for molecular life sciences; teaching assistant |
Reviewed for: Journal of Neuroscience || Journal of Neurophysiology || Neuropsychopharmacology || Frontiers in Human Neuroscience || Cortex || Human Brain Mapping || Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience