In the media

Karin installed at KNAW

Karin Roelofs is installed at the KNAW (The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

(14 September 2020)

Other Media:

• NU.nl interview: Floris Klumpers on the New Year’s incidents and CONTEXT project (January, 2026).

• Karin Roelofs joins the ERC board, interview written by VOX (December, 2025)

• Karin Roelofs on the role of freezing in self-defense, article in Dutch newspaper “Het Parool” (September, 2025)

• Karin Roelofs on political risk to ERC ALLEA: “Sector unaware of political risk to ERC, grantee leader warns.” (June, 2025)

• Karin Roelofs on how stress, social connectivity and screen time forms the brain “Brein in de blender: hoe stress, sociaal contact en schermtijd je hersenen vormen” (April, 2025)

• Karin Roelofs’ consolidator grant results featured by the ERC

• Karin talks about resilience in lecture series Radboud Reflects (video in Dutch, December 2023)

• Opinion piece on ‘How the brain’s freeze response should shape the judicial system’, based on our work (June 2023)

• Karin features in ‘Resultaat’, the annual magazine of the Dutch Research Council (NWO; article in Dutch, full magazine; 2022)

• Linda de Voogd talked about the role of fear on Dutch television (October 27th, 2021)

• Eos Wetenschap talks with Reinoud about how brain activation predicts resilience after traumatic experiences (article in Dutch, March 03, 2021)

• Dutch newspaper De Gelderlander interviews Reinoud about the role of emotion control and post-traumatic stress (article in Dutch, February 21, 2021)

• Reinoud talks about the role of emotional control in PTSS symptom development with KIJK magazine (article in Dutch, February 16, 2021)

• Reinoud discusses his latest paper on stress resilience from our lab (February 18, 2021)

• Vox wrote an article on Reinoud’s PhD research (article in Dutch, January 13, 2021)

• Bob Bramson interviewed on Dutch national radio (NPO1) about his latest paper on using brain stimulation to improve control over emotional actions (in Dutch, November 12, 2020)

• Belgian national radio station (Radio1) interviewed Bob Bramson about his latest paper on brain stimulation and control over emotional actions (in Dutch, November 9, 2020)

• Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant featured our recent paper on improving emotional-action control using brain stimulation (article in Dutch, 4 November, 2020)

• Bob Bramson featured in Vox on his recent paper improving emotional action control using brain stimulation (article in Dutch, 2 November, 2020)

• BNR highlights our recent study improving emotional action control using brain stimulation (Dutch radio, 22 October 2020)

• Karin Roelofs about fundamental Research (Vox, 23 September 2020)

• Karin Roelofs is installed at the KNAW (video in Dutch, 14 September 2020)

• Karin Roelofs taskforce Health (national science agenda, Neurolab.nl, August 2020)

• Karin Roelofs is introduced as one of the team members of NeuroLabNL (article in Dutch, April 2020)

• Karin Roelofs gives the Dies Natalis (in Dutch, October 2019)

• APS Blog Post on Testosterone and Aggression (September 2019)

• Karin interviewed about the Utrecht shooting (Algemeen Dagblad, in Dutch, July 2019)

• Defensive freezing in the brain helps shooting faster (Radboud news, March 2019)

• Anna Tyborowska interviewed about the effects of stress in the brain for NRC (in Dutch, September 2018)

• How do we make snap decisions? EU Horizon article (September 2018)

• 2nd CEPPI Workshop in Magdeburg, Germany:Avoiding danger and searching for safety (September 2018)

• Karin Roelofs talks about the effects of stress on young children (Dutch radio npo1, June 2018)

• Karin Roelofs and Maria Lojowska appear in the Dutch science TV program Kennis van Nu (November 2017)

• Karin Roelofs featured at NWO (October 2017)

• What makes you freeze fight or flight? Karin gives a lecture at Universiteit van Nederland.

• Karin talks about emotion regulation in psychopaths in the Volkskrant (article in Dutch).

• In het lab: experimenteren met stress (vox magazine).

• Serious games for police officers under stress.

• Work by Saskia Koch covered in the Volkskrant and AD.

• Testosteron beinvloedt emotieregulatie psychopaat.

• Testosterone influences regulation of emotions in psychopath’s brain

• Testosterone in social anxiety disorder on womensenews.org

• Could testosterone link lead to therapy for psychopathy? on ‘medical news today’.

• Eindelijk vat op de psychopaat on kennislink.nl

• Testosterone influences regulation of emotions in psychopath’s brain

• In het lab: Experimenteren met stress – VOX magazine (in Dutch)

• What being scared can do to your vision – blog on the British Psychological Society website

• Radboud Science Award for Karin Roelofs – click here and here for details.

• Testosterone alleviates social avoidance in social anxiety disorder.

• Karin Roelofs on NPO – Radio 2: Overval in Thalys – wat zou jij doen?

• ‘Waarom een shot testosteron helpt tegen sociale angsten’ article in HPdeTijd (in Dutch)

• ‘New vision on amygdala after study on testosterone and fear’ article in Medical Press

• ‘Shot testosteron tegen sociale angst’ article in EOS Wetenschap (in Dutch)

• ‘New vision on amygdala after study on testosterone and fear’ article in Science Daily

• Karin Roelofs, Vanessa van Ast and Hannah Niermann in Katja’s bodyscan.

• Karin Roelofs presents the police study in science program: “De kennis van Nu”.

• Karin Roelofs’ interview for a book: ‘Hersenwerk in uitvoering’. The interview can be found here.

• Vox article: Roelofs: Schiet jij of schiet ik?

• Karin Roelofs and Verena Ly talking to Radbot

• De Volkskrant: Angst is een haperende balans (article in Dutch)

• De Volkskrant: Psychofarmaca helpen om de flipperkast in je hoofd tot rust te brengen -soms. (article in Dutch)

• Psy, monthly journal GGZ Nederland: Testosteron voor vrouwen met sociale fobie (article in Dutch)

• Radboud University Nijmegen: Anterior prefrontal cortex inhibition impairs social emotional action (article in Dutch)

• De Volkskrant: Tussen de oren – vooraan in de hersenen (article in Dutch)

• Science Daily: Poor Cerebral Cortex Functions Leads to More Impulsive Behavior (Inge Volman)

• Labyrinth (VPRO): About stress, pregnancy and fight flight freeze (in Dutch)

• Life twitter show (VPRO) on stress, hormones, and fear (in Dutch)

• KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) colloquium on social phobia

• Radboud University Nijmegen: Endogenous testosterone and social emotional behavior (article in Dutch)

• COGSCIdotNL: Facing Freeze Blog

• Labyrint (VPRO): Human freeze responses: how do we measure them? (movie in Dutch)

• Teleac: Roelofs about anxiety in Helder (movie in Dutch)

• Mare Online: Scared stiff (article in Dutch)

• Leiden University Archive: The socially anxious brain in the scanner

• Radboud University Nijmegen: Mosaic-grant for Verena Ly (article in Dutch)

• Radboud University Nijmegen: Karin Roelofs-Professor of Experimental Psychopathology (article in Dutch)

• Leiden University: Veni grant for Muriel Hagenaars