Floor van Meer

Floor van Meer, PhD, is a Researcher affiliated with Team Data Science. Her work bridges neuroscience, psychology, and data science, focusing on how body mass index (BMI), distraction, and hormonal factors influence brain activation during food-related decision-making. She has published extensively in journals like Appetite and NeuroImage, leveraging functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore cognitive load, taste processing, and neural food cue reactivity.

Her research highlights distracted eating patterns and their correlation with BMI, alongside projects integrating deep learning to anticipate climate-driven disease outbreaks. She also serves as a co-promotor for PhD research on the microbiome-gut-brain axis in ADHD. Notably, her work on distracted eating received media attention and a scientific prize despite experimental challenges.

Floor van Meer leads initiatives in artificial intelligence for food safety and has contributed to food image databases. Her collaborations span Europe, with funding from the LVVN project for food-borne disease research. She emphasizes neuroimaging and behavioral tracking to address public health questions.

• Scientific Awards
  • Prize for research on distracted eating patterns despite experimental challenges

Projects include:

• Active: The effect of nutrition on the microbiome-gut-brain axis in ADHD (co-promotor)
• Completed: Applying deep learning to anticipate climate-driven disease outbreaks (project leader)