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Professor of Psychology and Department Chair

Director of the Cognition In Action  laboratory

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 a decade and a half already. My current projects focus on research as well as community engagement. For research, see my lab website, 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.