Ineke van der Ham
Professor Technological innovations in Neuropsychology
- Name
- Prof.dr. C.J.M. van der Ham
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6746
- c.j.m.van.der.ham@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1423-2876
Ineke van der Ham specialises in spatial cognition in real and immersive environments, combining fundamental neurocognitive and applied clinical research. She is a professor of Technological Innovations in Neuropsychology at the unit of Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology.
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Ineke van der Ham specialises in spatial cognition in real and immersive environments, combining fundamental neurocognitive and applied clinical research. She is a professor of Technological Innovations in Neuropsychology at the unit of Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology.
Research on spatial cognition and technological innovation
Van der Ham has dedicated her research to human spatial cognition (how humans interact with their spatial environment), pursuing it both from a cognitive neuroscientific and an experimental neuropsychological perspective. She conducts inter- and transdisciplinary research by implementing fundamental research in an applied and clinical context, and vice versa. Her research has been funded by e.g. NWO Veni, Revalidatiefonds, STW Take-off, and Wetenschapscommunicatie: Gewaardeerd!
Through technological advances, virtual space is increasingly becoming part of our spatial environment. Van der Ham examines how virtual environments are experienced across individuals and in comparison to the real world. Her work is characterized by numerous cross-disciplinary and societal partnerships across a wide range of scientific and applied domains such as healthcare, technology, humanities, education, and arts. This has resulted in the creation of theoretical insights within the field of spatial cognition, as well as clinical products that utilize virtual environments and serious gaming technology.
Short CV
Ineke van der Ham has a background in Clinical psychology (BSc, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Cognitive neuroscience (MSc, Utrecht University), and Experimental psychology (PhD, Utrecht University, judicium: cum laude). She completed her dissertation "Thinking left and right, neurocognitive studies on spatial relation processing" with distinction in 2010.
She worked as an assistant professor of neuropsychology at Utrecht University from 2010 to 2015, after which she joined Leiden University. In 2023, she was appointed as a professor.
Van der Ham is daily board member and education coordinator of the department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology, and the chairperson of the Master Education Committee of the Institute of Psychology. She is the coordinator of the master specialization Clinical Neuropsychology.
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Teaching
- Chairperson of the Master Education Committee of the Institute of Psychology
- Coordinator Master specialisation Clinical Neuropsychology
- Coordinator innovations in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Supervisor internship Clinical Neuropsychology
- Supervisor thesis Clinical Neuropsychology
- Supervisor bachelorthesis Psychology
- Lecturer in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Lecturer in Neurocognition
- Lecturer in Methods in Clinical Neuropsychology
Awards
Dissertation Award 2009-2010, Netherlands Society for Neuropsychology
Grants
- Science communication: Gewaardeerd! (2021) Muziek en ruimte in de neurowetenschap (10.000 Euro, with Rebecca Schaefer).
- EUniWell seed funding (2020) Enriched reality for education and digital wellbeing (25.000)
- Onderwijsinnovatie subsidie (2019) Stressless met behulp van Virtual Reality (50.652 Euro, with Nadira Saab)
- LUF (2019) The Leiden navigation test for internationally standardized assessment of navigation ability (22.530, with Michiel Claessen)
- STW start up grant (2015) Wayfinder: Serious game voor navigatievermogen (40.000 Euro, with Michiel Claessen, Anne Visser-Meily, and Albert Postma)
- ELS grant (2013) Selective attention and motor skills: A central mechanism in cognitive development? (15.000 Euro), co-applicant
- Revalidatiefonds grant (2012) Ontwikkeling van training van navigatievaardigheden in CVA patiënten (20.998 Euro), co-applicant
- Veni grant (2012) Keeping track of where you are: Order memory in spatial navigation (250.000 Euro), personal grant
- ELS grant (2012) The early roots of developing visuospatial cognition: An embodied dynamic systems study in young children (55.000 Euro), co-applicant
- Meerwaarde NWO grant (2011) Training navigation skills in virtual environments (40.000 Euro), primary applicant
- NCU collaboration grant (2011) The Drum Languages of Senegal – a Neurolinguistic Perspective (68.000 Euro), co-applicant
(former) PhD candidates
- Michiel Claessen, PhD
- Miranda Smit, MSc
- Milan van der Kuil, MSc
- Anne Cuperus, PhD
Professor Technological innovations in Neuropsychology
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Gezondheids, Medische- Neuropsychologie
- Ham C.J.M. van der (1 December 2023). Een illusie rijker. Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Ham C.J.M. van der (1 December 2023). Illusionment. Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University. Leiden. [inaugural address].