Verena Ly
Senior policy adviser
- Name
- Dr. V. Ly
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- v.ly@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8932-3065
As policy adviser, Verena advises and supports the Psychology Institute Board during the development, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of policy.
More information about Verena Ly
Blogs
As policy adviser, Verena advises and supports the Psychology Institute Board during the development, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of policy.
Verena's focus areas primarily lie in the domain of research. However, she works with the strong conviction that an integral approach is needed to drive organizational development.
Verena's mission to increase the quality of scientific research and to foster a positive academic culture was born out of personal experience as a researcher and teacher. In her mission, she strongly values a knowledge-driven culture and evidence-based policy development. Therefore, Verena enjoys collaborating with researchers, policy-, and other officers, who share the same mission. One example of her initiatives is the university wide Empower your PhD project.
Background
Verena Ly has more than 10 years of experience in research and education. She has a background in multidisciplinary research in which she combined experimental psychopathology, neurocognitive science, and clinical research among other areas. She completed a Research Master in Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University (2010). Supported by a personal Mosaic grant from the NWO, she performed her PhD research at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (2010-2014). She spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher and multicenter clinical trial coordinator at Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Centre and the Radboudumc (2014-2016). In 2016 she returned to Leiden University, first as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and from 2021 onwards as a policy officer research at the Institute of Psychology.
For her publications, see here.
Working Days
Verena works on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (on-site: Tuesday and Thursday).
Senior policy adviser
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Instituutsbureau Psychologie
- Huberts‐Bosch A., Bierens M., Rucklidge J.J., Ly V., Donders R., van de Loo‐Neus G.H.H., Arias‐Vasquez A., Klip H., Buitelaar J.K., van den Berg S.W. & Rommelse N.N. (2024), Effects of an elimination diet and a healthy diet in children with Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: 1‐Year prospective follow‐up of a two‐arm randomized, controlled study (TRACE study), JCPP Advances : e12257.
- Koppenborg K., Garnefski N., Kraaij V. & Ly V. (2024), Academic stress, mindfulness-related skills and mental healthin international university students, Journal of American College Health 72(3): 787–795.
- Schie C.C. van, Cook J.L., Elzinga B.M. & Ly V. (2023), A boost in self-esteem after positive social evaluation predicts social and non-social learning, Royal Society Open Science 10: .
- Huberts-Bosch A., Bierens M., Ly V., Velde J. van der, Boer H. de, Beek G. van, Appelman D., Visser S., Bos L.H.P., Reijmers L., Meer J. van der, Kamphuis N., Draaisma J.M.T., Donders R., Loo-Neus G.H.H. van de, Hoekstra P.J., Bottelier M., Arias-Vasquez A., Klip H., Buitelaar J.K., Berg S.W. van den & Rommelse N.N. (2023), Short-term effects of an elimination diet and healthy diet in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a randomized-controlled trial, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry : .
- Koppenborg K.A., Garnefski N., Kraaij V. & Ly V. (2022), Academic stress, mindfulness-related skills and mental health in international university students, Journal of American College Health : 1-9.
- Ligneul R., Mainen Z.F., Ly V. & Cools R. (2022), Stress-sensitive inference of task controllability, Nature Human Behaviour 6: 812-822.
- Charpentier C.J., Faulkner P., Pool E.R., Ly V., Tollenaar M.S., Kluen L.M., Fransen A., Yamamori Y., Lally N., Mkrtchian A., Valton V., Huys Q.J.M., Sarigiannidis I., Morrow K.A., Krenz V., Kalbe F., Cremer A., Zerbes G., Kausche F.M., Wanke N., Giarrizzo A., Pulcu E., Murphy S., Kaltenboeck A., Browning M., Paul L., Cools R., Roelofs K., Pessoa L., Harmer C.J., Chase H.W., Grillon C., Schwabe L., Roiser J.P., Robinson O.J. & O’Doherty J.P. (2021), How representative are neuroimaging samples?: Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 16(10): 1057-1070.
- Bosch A., Bierens M., Wit. A.G. de, Ly V., Velde J. van der, Boer H. de, Beek G. van, Appelman D., Visser S., Bos L., Meer J. van der, Kamphuis N., Draaisma J.M.T., Donders R., Loo-Neus G.H.H. van de, Hoekstra P.J., Bottelier M., Arias-Vasquez A., Klip H., Buitelaar J.K., Berg S.W. van den & Rommelse N.N. (2020), A two arm randomized controlled trial comparing the short and long term effects of an elimination diet and a healthy diet in children with ADHD (TRACE study): Rationale, study design and methods, BMC Psychiatry 20: 262.
- Ly V., Wang K.S., Bhanji J. & Delgado M.R. (2019), A Reward-Based Framework of Perceived Control, Frontiers in Neuroscience 13: e65.
- Piray P., Ly V., Roelofs K., Cools R. & Toni I. (2019), Emotionally aversive cues suppress neural systems underlying optimal learning in socially anxious individuals, Journal of Neuroscience 39(8): 1445-1456.
- Cools R., Den Ouden H.E.M., Ly V. & Huys Q.J.M. (2018), Can we advance our understanding of emotional behavior by reconceptualizing it as involving valuation? . In: Fox A.S., Lapate R.C., Shackman A.J. & Davidson R.J. (Eds.), The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions. New York: Oxford University Pres. 571 p.
- Buitelaar J.K., Rommelse N., Ly V. & Rucklidge J.J. (2018), Nutritional intervention for ADHD. In: Banaschewski T., Coghill D. & Zuddas A. (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Berlin, London, New York: Oxford University Press. 472 p.
- Ly V., Bottelier M., Hoekstra P.J., Vasquez A.A., Buitelaar J.K. & Rommelse N.N. (2017), Elimination diets’ efficacy and mechanisms in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 26(9): 1067–1079.
- Ly V., Roijendijk L., Hazebroek H., Tonnaer C. & Hagenaars M.A. (2017), Incident-experience predicts freezing-like responses in firefighters, 12(10): e0186648.
- Ly V., Von Borries A.K.L., Bulten B.H., Cools R. & Roelofs K. (2016), Reduced transfer of affective value to instrumental behavior in violent offenders, Journal of Abnormal Psychology 125(5): 657-663.
- Ly V., Bergmann T.O., Gladwin T., Volman I., Usberti N., Cools R. & Roelofs K. (2016), Reduced affective biasing of instrumental action with prefrontal tDCS, Brain Stimulation 9(3): 380-387.
- Niermann H.C.M., Ly V., Smeekens S., Figner B., Riksen-Walraven J.M. & Roelofs K. (2015), Infant attachment predicts bodily freezing in adolescence: evidence from a prospective longitudinal study, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9: e263.
- Ly V., Cools R. & Roelofs K. (2014), Aversive disinhibition of behaviour and striatal signalling in social avoidance, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 19: 1530-1536.
- Bloemendaal M., Janssen L., Ly V. & Wegman J. (2014), Cognitieve balans: Wat is het en hoe kan het onderwijs erop inspelen?, Kennisnet: 4W Weten Wat Werkt en Waarom 3(4): 30-37.
- Brazil I., Hagenaars M., Ly V., Kwaks N., Jellema S., Vries M., Verkes R., Bulten E., Von Borries K. & Roelofs K. (2013), De rol van freeze-fight-flightreacties bij plegers en slachtoffers van gewelddadige aanslagen. Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
- Browning M., Grol M., Ly V., Goodwin G.M., Holmes E.A. & Harmer C. (2011), Using an experimental medicine model to explore combination effects of pharmacological and cognitive interventions for depression and anxiety, Neuropsychopharmacology 36: 2689-2696.
- Ly V. & Roelofs K. (2009), Social anxiety and cognitive expectancy of aversive outcome in avoidance conditioning, Behaviour Research and Therapy 47(10): 840-847.
- Rieffe C., Oosterveld P., Miers A.C., Meerum Terwogt M. & Ly V. (2008), Emotion awareness and internalising symptoms in children and adolescents: The Emotion Awareness Questionnaire revised, Personality and Individual Differences 45(8): 756-761.