Rijk van Wees is currently in his second year of the research masters Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University. He completed his bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences, with a minor in Neuroscience. During this minor, he discovered that he wanted to pursue his interests in the brain, especially when it comes to decision making.

For his master internship at the learning and decision-making lab, he is working on a project investigating how motivational biases influence human decision-making when confronted with reward and threat, under the supervision of Renee and Hanneke. More precisely, he will analyze how Pavlovian bias toward action or inhibition behaves in rewarding contexts (Win), immediate aversive contexts (Escape), and delayed aversive contexts (Avoid) through the Avoid/Escape/Win Go/No-go task.