- Position : Ass. Prof.
- Institution : Maastricht University
- Department : Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience
- Location : Maastricht, , The Netherlands
- Website : http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/tom.smeets/index.htm
Dr. Tom Smeets PhD
Main Research Focus
My research focuses on two main issues:
(1) What differentiates those who are able to cope well with adversity (i.e. are resilient) from those who are not?
(2) The neurobiology of learning and memory.
Career
October 1, 2008 – present: Assistant Professor; Maastricht University
August 1, 2008 – September 30, 2008: Post-doctoral Fellow; Maastricht University
February 1, 2008 – July 31, 2008: Post-doctoral Fellow; Rühr-Universität Bochum, Germany
October 1, 2006 – January 31, 2008: Post-doctoral Fellow; Maastricht University
June 1, 2003 – September 30, 2006: PhD position; Maastricht University
1999 – 2003: M.Sc. (cum laude) in Cognitive Psychology; Maastricht University
Awards
2008 Young Investigator Award recipient at the 39th Annual International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) conference in Dresden, Germany: $600 USD (July 17-20, 2008)
Publication Highlights
Selected publications:
Smeets, T., Wolf, O.T., Giesbrecht, T., Sijstermans, K., Telgen, S., & Joëls, M. (2009). Stress selectively and lastingly promotes learning of context-related high arousing information. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 1152-1161.
Smeets, T., Dziobek, I., & Wolf, O.T. (2009). Social cognition under stress: Differential effects of stress-induced cortisol elevations in healthy young men and women. Hormones and Behavior, 55, 507-513.
Schoofs, D., Wolf, O.T., & Smeets, T. (2009). Cold pressor stress impairs performance on working memory tasks requiring executive functions in healthy young men. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 1066-1075.
Smeets, T., Otgaar, H., Candel, I., & Wolf, O.T. (2008). True or false? Memory is differentially affected by stress-induced cortisol elevations and sympathetic activity at consolidation and retrieval. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33, 1378-1386.
See http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/tom.smeets/index.htm for more info on my research interests, awards & grants, and pdf's of my publications.
