Freek obtained his PhD in 2014 from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Radboud University Nijmegen) where he worked with Eric Maris, Ole Jensen, and Floris de Lange. He then received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and a Newton International Fellowship and spent five years as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (University of Oxford) in the Brain & Cognition Lab of Kia Nobre. In 2020, Freek was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to found the Proactive Brain Lab at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and in 2022 he received an NWO Vidi grant to expand the lab. Freek has received several awards and recognitions, including the Young Investigator Awards from the Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition (NVP, 2022), the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN, 2023) and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS, 2023). Freek currently serves on the editorial board of Vision, and on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Progress in Neurobiology, and Visual Cognition. He is co-chair of the Amsterdam Graduate Network for Cognitive Neuroscience, serves as PhD candidate advisor at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, and teaches the research-master course on Cognitive Electrophysiology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Rose obtained a master degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2020. Within the Proactive Brain Lab, Rose investigates the action-oriented nature of visual working memory, and its neural signatures, mainly using electroencephalography (EEG).

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Baiwei obtained his master degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2020. In the Proactive Brain Lab, Baiwei combines eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the links between microsaccades and EEG signatures of spatial attention inside working memory, and to track the transformations in working memory that serve anticipated task goals.

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Daniela obtained her master degree in Neuro-cognitive Psychology from LMU Munich in 2018 and is currently a PhD student in the Brain & Cognition Lab at the University of Oxford. Being co-supervised by Freek, Daniela investigates the behavioural and neural signatures of the dynamic interplay between internal and external attention, as well as the modulation thereof by temporal expectations.

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