Karin Roelofs

Karin Roelofs is a professor at the Donders Institute and the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University in the Netherlands. During her neuropsychology studies, she conducted research at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). She obtained her PhD in Psychology from Radboud University in 2002. Supported by several research grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), she served as assistant and later associate professor at Leiden University from 2002 to 2010. She returned to her alma mater in 2010, where she was appointed full professor and became chair of the Affective Neuroscience group at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. Prof. Roelofs is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and serves on the board of ALLEA (All European Academies). She was a founding member and vice president of the Association for ERC Grantees (AERG) from 2019 to 2025 and previously served as president of the International Resilience Alliance (INTRESA). She has been awarded three ERC grants for her research on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying stress vulnerability and resilience, including an ERC Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant, and Advanced Grant. She has also secured several consortium grants, including a collaborative Horizon 2020 award and, in 2025, a Dutch Research Agenda – Research along Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC) grant. In 2020, she received the Evens Science Prize, an international honour recognising societally impactful cognitive neuroscience research, for her work on stress resilience.

Mandate ERC Scientific Council: 1 Jan 2026  - 31 December 2029