181 CURRICULUM VITAE A Curriculum Vitae Renee Lustenhouwer was born in Rotterdam on January 15th 1991. After completing her secondary education at the Marnix Gymnasium in 2009, she attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the USA on a field hockey scholarship, where she majored in Exercise Science. She returned to the Netherlands in 2010, to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Human Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. During this time, she first developed an interest in neurorehabilitation and the human brain. This interest was further fueled by a research internship on the attentional focus of stroke patients during their rehabilitation at Heliomare, under the supervision of prof. dr. Han Houdijk and dr. Elmar Kal, and the writing of a thesis on functional brain networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder, supervised by dr. John Stins. During her time at the faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Renee was an active member of the study association Vereniging in Beweging, which she chaired in the 2012-2013 academic year. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in 2014, she continued her studies with a research master Cognitive Neuropsychology at the same university. Her love for doing research was further cemented here. She studied the consequences of very preterm birth with a research project on attentional problems in this group, and a thesis on how altered structural brain network organization relates to IQ and motor problems, supervised by dr. Sabrina Twilhaar, dr. Jorrit de Kieviet and dr. Marsh Königs. Renee was a student member of the study program committee in 2015-2016. She obtained her master’s degree with the cum laude distinction in 2016. Not long after, Renee started her PhD research in Nijmegen, which is described in this thesis. This multidisciplinary collaboration between the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging and the Radboudumc’s departments of Rehabilitation and Neurology, allowed her to combine her interests in Human Movement Science and Clinical Neuroscience. She conducted her research under the supervision of prof. dr. Baziel van Engelen, dr. Jan Groothuis, dr. Rick Helmich and dr. Ian Cameron. Dr. Nens van Alfen, prof. dr. Ivan Toni and prof. dr. Sander Geurts acted as valuable advisors. In addition to studying brain function and rehabilitation in neuralgic amyotrophy, Renee participated in numerous (training) activities. She was involved in teaching, set up a personal development week for her fellow PhD candidates, and helped organize Muscles2Meet, a 2-day symposium for PhD candidates in the Neuromuscular field in the Netherlands. A full list of training activities can be found in Renee’s portfolio. After her time in Nijmegen, Renee returned to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to work as the coordinator of the Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam Rotterdam (ONWAR) and manager at the department of Functional Genomics, part of the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research in 2021 and 2022. As of February 2023, Renee works as a teacher at Universiteit Utrecht, department of Experimental Psychology.
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