Lea Michel, MSc

Postdoc Researcher, Medical Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen

I am currently a postdoc at the Donders Institute in Andre Marquand’s group Predictive Clinical Neuroscience Lab where I work on the Precognition project, looking at cognitive impairment as a predictor of schizophrenia.

PhD research
I finished my PhD “Grey or white, does it matter? Integrating grey and white matter structural MRI metrics in developmental cognitive neuroscience” in Rogier Kievit group Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics Lab in March 2026. There, I studied the co-development of grey and white matter structures in adolescence.

My posters and talk slides are uploaded on OSF. Feel free to contact me for information on any of these projects or for a collaboration.

Future
I would like to pursue my career in academia and focus on intergenerational transmission of negative parenting and mental health issue. I am particularly interested in family models, but also on how genetics, environment and epigenetic interact together during development.

On the side Alongside my PhD, I am also invested in reducing the carbon footprint of academia, working both within my department and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, as the past chair of the SEA-SIG.

Lea Michel, MSc

Postdoc Researcher, Medical Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen

I am currently a postdoc at the Donders Institute in Andre Marquand’s group Predictive Clinical Neuroscience Lab where I work on the Precognition project, looking at cognitive impairment as a predictor of schizophrenia.

PhD research
I finished my PhD “Grey or white, does it matter? Integrating grey and white matter structural MRI metrics in developmental cognitive neuroscience” in Rogier Kievit group Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics Lab in March 2026. There, I studied the co-development of grey and white matter structures in adolescence.

My posters and talk slides are uploaded on OSF. Feel free to contact me for information on any of these projects or for a collaboration.

Future
I would like to pursue my career in academia and focus on intergenerational transmission of negative parenting and mental health issue. I am particularly interested in family models, but also on how genetics, environment and epigenetic interact together during development.

On the side Alongside my PhD, I am also invested in reducing the carbon footprint of academia, working both within my department and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, as the past chair of the SEA-SIG.