Team Wim Notebaert

New Members to the Team

We are excited to present 3 new members to the team

PhD Student

Hanne Daenen

Hanne Daenen is a new PhD student. She is co-supervised by Catherine Culot and Wim Gevers (ULB). She will investigate how internal body signals are used to evaluate our own performance.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Bram Janssens

Bram starts in January 2026 in our lab as a sports data analyst. Together with Tom Loeys he will apply causal machine learning techniques to large sports data sets.

Sport Psychology Integration Lead

Ellen Schouppe

Ellens Schouppe joins our team as a research assistant (30%). With many years of experience as a sport psychologist she will facilitate our research.

RESEARCH TEAM

PhD Student

Ayala Denul

Ayala started her PhD in 2023 on social error monitoring in sports contexts. Gilles Pourtois is co-supervisor. Have a look at her first poster (NVP, December 2023)

PhD Student

Daxun Zhu

Daxun is a PhD student supervised by Senne Braem and co-supervised by Wim Notebaert. Daxun is investigating the specificity/generality of conflict adaptation.

Postdoctoral researcher

Leslie Held

Leslie successfully defended her Phd in September 2025. She is now a postdoc on our lab and she is investigating the impact of physical exercise on cognitive processes.

Postdoctoral researcher

Catherine Culot

Catherine is a postdoc on a large WEAVE project together with Wim Gevers (ULB) where we investigate believe updating.

Master student

Marie Van de Walle

Marie is a master student doing her internship in our lab. She is investigating the influence of physical exercise (cycling) on cognitive performance in the sports lab.

PhD Student

Nicoleta Prutean

Nicoleta successfully defended her PhD in January 2025. She investigated how people evaluate and invest mental effort. Nico Böhler was co-supervisor.

Principal Investigator

Wim Notebaert

Started in Leuven (KUL) with Johan Wagemans, investigating low level perception. Did my PhD in Brussels (VUB) with Eric Soetens on sequential effects in congruency tasks. As a postdoc in Ghent conflict adaptation was my first focus, later error monitoring and effort investment. Now my focus is on metacognition and decision making in sports. I do this with a large team of master students, PhDs, postdocs and (inter)national collaborators.

Alumni

Luc Vermeylen

Ivan Ivanchei

Marit Ruitenberg

Carsten Bundt

Liesbet Van der Borght

Elger Abrahamse

Marlies Van Bochove

Klaas Bombeke

Wout Duthoo

Senne Braem

Nathalie Schouppe

Femke Houtman