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16 August 2021
It is the theme’s great pleasure to inform you that Dr. Guusje Collin will start as a psychiatrist/researcher on September 1. Guusje was trained at the UMCU and received her PhD on brain network analysis in schizophrenia.
At the research level, she combines imaging research with Mindfulness interventions and has recently been awarded a GGZ Research Fellowship by ZonMw, which she will largely spend the next 5 years doing.
For further information see also a recent interview she gave on this:
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