Kris Baetens is a tenure track professor at the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), teaching Biological Psychology, Clinical Interventions, and Clinical Biological Psychology in the psychology and the artificial Intelligence programs. He is chair of the Brain, Body and Cognition research Group (https://bbco.research.vub.be/) and steering group member of the Brussels University Consultation Center (https://www.brucc.be/en/), a VUB non-profit training and consultation centre that supports the training of psychologists, organizes research on effectivity of clinical interventions, and offers evidence based psychological services. As a clinical psychologist, he has experience in the treatment of substance use disorders and personality pathology. The general focus of his research is on cerebellar and prefrontal contributions to (social) sequential cognition and self-regulation, particularly applied to substance use disorders, personality pathology and autism spectrum disorders. To this end, he uses functional neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI), non-invasive brain stimulation as well as reaction time experiments and self-report measures. A relatively new research focus involves leveraging machine learning to investigate the psychopathological correlates of resting state EEG in large samples.
