Tulsa Community College (Associate of Arts -Psychology)

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1 Curriculum Vitae Personal Information Surname: Given Name: Trujillo James Paul Address: Paulinastraat 62 Postal code, city and country: GK, Den Haag, NL Date of birth: September 28, 1988 Place of Birth: Sex: Nationality: Anaheim, California Male American Study Bartlesville Home-School (High-School Diploma) Bartlesville, OK Tulsa Community College (Associate of Arts -Psychology) Grade: 2.8 / 4 Tulsa, OK Northeastern State University (Bachelor of Arts - Psychology; Biology) Grade: 3.5 / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Master of Science - Neuroscience) Broken Arrow, OK Grade: 8 / 10 Amsterdam, NL

2 Achievements Fall 2008 Full-time enrollment with grade point average of at least 3.5 / 4 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 President s Honor Roll Full-time enrollment with grade point average of 4 / 4 Internships 2012 Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, NL Department of Neurophysiology Supervisors: Dr. Jos van der Geest & Dr. Klaus Linkenkaer Hansen Project: Effect of Eye Position on Saccadic Adaptation Dynamics Designed and carried out a motor adaptation experiment in healthy humans using EyeLink to assess rates of adaptation and recovery of saccadic movements across the visual field End grade: 8 / 10 February July VU Medical Center Amsterdam, NL Department of Neuropsychiatry Supervisors: Dr. Odile van den Heuvel & Drs. Niels Gerrits Project: Working memory in Parkinson s disease using functional MRI Analyzed fmri data pertaining to working memory in Parkinson s disease patients and healthy controls as assessed via a visuospatial n-back task. Assessment included behavioural (SPSS), GLM/whole-brain (SPM8), functional connectivity (PPI), and effective connectivity (DCM) End grade: 8.5 / 10 February July Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience / VU Medical Center Amsterdam, NL Literature review: The role of sleep in maintaining executive and memory network integrity Supervisors: Dr. Ysbrand van der Werf & Prof. Eus van Someren End Grade: 8.5/10 June September 2013

3 Work VU Medical Center Amsterdam, NL Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience Section Neuropsychiatry Position: Research Assistant October 2013 January hours per week - Data analysis (fmri) for Emotion Regulation Task in OCD patients using psychophysiological interactions analyses - Data acquisition (fmri) and data analysis for follow-up study in Parkinson s disease. Tasks included programming a delayed discounting task, subject recruitment, neuropsychological and clinical assessments, and MRI data acquisition and quality checks - Longitudinal analysis of task- and MRI-data for the Tower of London; writing manuscript for publication of results 2015 present Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Donders Center for Cognition Max Planck Institute Position: PhD Student February 2015 present 40 hours per week Extracurricular April 17, 2013 Poster presentation at the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam Meeting Presented research regarding working memory in Parkinson s disease at the yearly NCA meeting June, 2013 Supervision of medical students for research proposal With Dr. Odile van den Heuvel, supervised 3 rd year VU medical students in the construction and presentation of a research proposal regarding Parkinson s disease and brain connectivity March 7, 2014 Poster presentation at the VUmc Science Exchange Day Presented research regarding functional and effective connectivity in Parkinson s disease at the VUmc Science Exchange Day April 10, 2014 Poster presentation at the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam Meeting

4 Presented research regarding functional and effective connectivity in Parkinson s disease at the yearly NCA meeting June, 2014 Supervision of medical students for research proposal Supervised 3 rd year VU medical students in the construction and presentation of a research proposal regarding Parkinson s disease and deep brain stimulation Skills MATLAB (statistics, data analysis, programming/scripting) SPM8 (fmri data cleaning and preprocessing, GLM analysis, MarsBar, Dynamic Causal Modeling, Psychophysiological Interactions, ROI analyses) SPSS (repeated measures ANOVA, univariate ANOVA, T-tests, Chi 2, linear and logistic regression, non-parametric mean comparisons) E-prime 1.0 and 2.0 (experimental design and operation) Python (basic programming skills) Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) EyeLink (experimental design and general operation) EEG (physical application, data cleaning & analysis) MRI (scanning procedure for structural and functional data acquisition) Neuropsychological assessment Clinical Assessment (SCID-I screening; UPDRS-III) Publications Trujillo, JP, Gerrits, NJHM, van der Werf, YD, Veltman, DJ, Groenewegen, HJ, Berendse, HW & van den Heuvel, OA (2015). Reduced neural connectivity but increased task-related activity during working memory in de-novo Parkinson patients. In press. De Wit, SJ, van der Werf, YD, Mataix-Cols, D, Trujillo, JP, van Oppen P, Veltman, DJ, van den Heuvel, OA (submitted). Emotion regulation before and after transcranial magnetic stimulation in obsessive-compulsive disorder

5 Languages English Dutch Native speaker Professional fluency in reading, writing, and speaking Staatsexamen NT2-II certified German Reasonable command of reading, writing, and speaking References Odile van den Heuvel, MD PhD Psychiatrist, Senior researcher, Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience Jos van der Geest, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. Neuroscience Erasmus medical center, Rotterdam (+31) Ysbrand van der Werf, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. Anatomy & Neurosciences Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Dept. Sleep & Cognition, Amsterdam Niels Gerrits, MSc PhD student, Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience