
Sahaj Kang
Profile
Sahaj got her MA (Honors) in Psychology in 2016 from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and a MSc in Clinical Psychology in 2017 from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She did a research internship in the Experimental Psychopathology Lab (EPP) lab in Utrecht University and worked as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) in Maastricht University. In December of 2018, she started a joint PhD under the supervision of Geert Crombez (UGent), Johan Vlaeyen (KU Leuven) and Dimitri van Ryckeghem (Maastricht University). She investigates whether pain can be classically conditioned. Other than aiming to conduct experiments using virtual reality to find an answer to this question, Sahaj broadly aims to improve understanding of classical conditioning as a means of resilience building and improving treatment.
Interests
- Associative Learning
- Pain
- Treatment Efficacy
- Virtual Reality (VR)

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.
Marie De Breucker
I obtained my Master of Science in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2021. During my six month research internship at the Ghent Experimental Psychiatry Lab, where I investigated an attentional bias to food in patients with anorexia nervosa, my interest in research was further enhanced, especially involving clinical populations.