Associate Professor of Psychology and Department Chair
Associate member in the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
Affiliated Faculty Member of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, RU-NB
Affiliated Faculty Member of SOCRATES (Rutgers Robotics NRT), RU-NB
Rutgers University, Camden Campus
Department. of Psychology
Room 348, Armitage Hall
r.vanderwel@rutgers.edu

Hard to believe that I have been at Rutgers – Camden for over a decade already. My current projects focus on research as well as community engagement. For research, see my current interests as well as my publications. I also teach during most semesters. My recurring courses include Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, The Psychology of Human Action, and Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. I received the 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of my teaching efforts.

Before joining Rutgers, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Somby group at the Donders Centre for Cognition in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. I completed my graduate education at the Pennsylvania State University (2009). Before that, I completed a Bachelor and Masters degree in Cognitive Psychology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I was born and raised in Gouda, where I attended basisschool Het Vlot and the Coornhert Gymnasium.