Julianna is a research assistant at the SYNC lab and is involved in the Gravitation program ‘Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS)’. As a research assistant, Caroline is primarily involved with planning and screening of participants and data collection including MRI scans, behavioural experiments, and questionnaires.

Julianna has a background is in psychology and neuroscience and is currently enrolled in a Research Master in Neuroscience & Cognition at Utrecht University. During this master’s she also conducted her internship at SYNC, under the Braintime study, where she helped with the last wave of data collection in young adults.

Sarah is a research assistant at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is involved in the transdisciplinary research ‘Adolescents as agents of change’. This research focusses on how youth can positively contribute to society, what effect it has on them and in what ways society can support them in doing so. In this position, she works closely with several societal partners and she is involved in various aspects of the research, including the participant recruitment, data collection and data processing.

Sarah obtained a bachelor’s degree in pedagogical sciences and a master’s degree in Youth Development and Social Change at Utrecht University. During her studies she specialised in working interdisciplinary and learned how to operate as a bridgebuilder between science and practice, to work on societal problems regarding youth.