Marieke van der Schaaf

Marieke van der Schaaf is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, affiliated with the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology). She holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying motivational deficits and fatigue in medical diseases, particularly through immune-brain interactions. She combines neuroimaging, pharmacological interventions, and behavioral studies in both healthy populations and longitudinal patient studies. Key areas include fatigue in chronic conditions, decision-making under inflammation, and the role of cytokines like IL-1 in symptom regulation.

She teaches courses such as 'Brain Dysfunction' and collaborates with institutions like the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. Her work emphasizes translational research to bridge cognitive neuroscience and clinical practice, aiming to improve treatments for fatigue-related disorders. She serves on the editorial board of Neuroimmunomodulation and has published widely on inflammation's effects on cognition and behavior.