Karin Roelofs

ALLEA Board Member | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Karin Roelofs is Professor of Experimental Psychopathology at the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) and Chair of the Experimental Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience (EPAN) labgroup at the Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour (DI), Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She is an expert in neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying stress-vulnerability and resilience in health and psychopathology. She has provided key empirical foundations of current theories about the role of human defensive stress-reactions in long-term resilience. Karin Roelofs is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Academia Europaea (AE). As Vice-President of the Association for ERC Grantees (AERG) she is committed to fundamental science in Europe. She is also the spokesperson of the International Resilience Alliance (INTRESA). She has received several European grants for her research, including an ERC-starting (2012), ERC-consolidator (2017), and a collaborative Horizon 2020 grant. In 2020, she won the international prize for societally relevant cognitive neuroscience research, for her work on stress-resilience.