Elske Salemink
Elske Salemink is Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University. She studied Health Sciences (Mental Health Science) at Maastricht University and graduated cum laude in 2002. In 2008, she received her PhD, which focused on the causal role of interpretive bias in anxiety, at Utrecht University. During her Phd project she also worked at the Cognition and Emotion lab, Perth Australia. From 2009 to 2018, she worked as an Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam. Dr. Salemink is also a registered cognitive behavior therapist (member of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (VGCt). In addition, she is a member of the Dutch-Flemish research program Experimental Psychopathology, is Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology and on the editorial board of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, and of the Dutch journal Gedragstherapie. Dr. Salemink received several grants for her research including a VENI and VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZONMW). Her main research interests are understanding the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and depression. She is interested in biases in information processing such as attentional and interpretive bias, implicit associations and also the ability and tendency to control such processes (e.g., executive control processes). She examines how these processes drive symptoms and impact upon treatment success. Her research has both an experimental and a clinical focus.