Tom Smeets

Background

About Tom Smeets

I am a full professor of Clinical Psychology at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) of Tilburg University, and since 2019 I am Head of Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. As of January 2023, I'm serving as the national coordinator of the research programme "Mental Disorders" initiated by DSW (Council of Deans in Social Sciences). My expertise lies in the domain of learning and memory abnormalities following stress and trauma and how they relate to the development and maintenance of mental disorders. I was fortunate to receive, among other granats, an NWO Brain and Cognition grant and the NWO Talent grants RUBICON, VENI, and VIDI for investigating the interplay between neurological, psychophysiological and psychological markers of resiliency to stress-related mental disorders and the engagement of multiple memory systems, along with studies on acute stress effects on (over)generalization of fear and excessive avoidance. I am currently also involved in prof. A. Jansen (Maastricht University)'s NWO-funded Gravitation Programme (see Ancillary activities- Board Member RINO Zuid (2021-2029)- Board Member Experimental PsychoPathology (EPP; 2020-2028)- Grant Reviewer (e.g, NWO, DFG, FNRS, NSF, NIAS-Lorentz, ESF)