Eleana Pinto
Profile
After studying Neurosciences at the University of Padova, Eleana worked as a research assistant at the Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). There, she investigated corticospinal excitability and plasticity in psychiatric and healthy populations using TMS. In 2019, she started a joint-PhD on the effects of motor action on pain processing at Ghent and Maastricht University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefaan Van Damme. In 2023, she worked as a postdoc at the University of Luxembourg where she studied attentional bias flexibility for pain using EEG. Currently, she is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, and she is using neurophysiological approaches to examine how motor preparation processes support pain-related avoidance behavior
Interests
- Pain
- Motor actions
- EEG
- Embodied Cognition
- Attention
Meet the team
Meet our enthousiastic and lively team of professors, post-doctoral researchers, phd students and research assistants
Fleur Baert
Fleur graduated as a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University.
Maya Braun
Maya obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University. After collecting experience in different areas of psychology during her student jobs, internships and theses, she joined the Health Psychology Lab of Ghent University as a doctoral student
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez is Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Experimental-Health Psychology at Ghent University.
Lena De Bonte
Lena obtained a Master of Science in criminological sciences (2021) and sociology (2023) from Ghent University. During her Bachelor's studies, she developed a keen interest in opioid use and the related stigma
