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TuongVan Vu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical, Neuro-, and Developmental Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience (2019) and a Research Master in Social Psychology (2013) from VU Amsterdam. Her research focuses on academic motivation, educational neuroscience, cultural influences on cognition, and developmental psychology. She has conducted interdisciplinary work at institutions like the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Peking University.
Educations: BA in English Linguistics (Vietnam National University, 2006), BA in Liberal Arts (Utrecht University, 2010), MSc in Social Psychology (VU Amsterdam, 2013), PhD in Psychology (VU Amsterdam, 2019).
Research Interests: Reciprocal relationships between motivation and achievement, cultural differences in social cognition, prosocial behavior in children, and the evolution of social learning. She leads projects like the SENSA team studying prosocial development in children and collaborates on educational neuroscience initiatives.
Her recent work includes studies on motivation-achievement cycles, pandemic psychological effects, and cross-cultural emotion regulation. She has published in journals like British Journal of Educational Psychology and Nature Communications.
Grants include funding from the Jacobs Foundation and involvement in large-scale projects like the Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam initiative. She teaches courses on epidemiology and statistics in psychology.
Labs/Teams: SENSA team (prosocial behavior), LEARN! (educational neuroscience), and collaborations with international researchers in cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychology.
