Rares Radulescu obtained his master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University in Nijmegen (track 2: Perception, Action, & Decision-Making). Prior to that, he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology & Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology, focusing on Lights and Sounds. For his bachelor’s thesis, he investigated if metameric lights affect working memory performance by way of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.

Rares joined the lab for his master’s internship and thesis, where he was supervised by Bertalan Polner and Hanneke den Ouden. During his internship, Rares developed a novel Go/No-Go task to investigate the coupling of aversive stimuli and behavioral inhibition. This task is currently being used in a psychopharmacological study investigating serotonin using SSRIs.

Rares is now working as a research assistent under dr. Eliana Vassena at the Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience lab of the DCCN.