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Nicole Vogelzangs, PhD (1978) is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychiatry and EMGO+ Institute, VU University Medical Center. She obtained a 2 year fellowship from the EMGO+ institute to study the role of inflammatory markers in depression and anxiety and in their relationship with somatic diseases.
Nicole studied Biological Psychology with a specialization in Neuropsychology at the Maastricht University. During her study she spent six months at the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In 2005 she started a PhD-project at the Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute, VUmc, partly embedded within the NESDA study. As part of her PhD Nicole visited the Sticht Center on Aging, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for four months in 2006. She obtained a Master in Epidemiology in 2007. On April 23, 2010 she successfully defended her PhD thesis "Depression & Metabolic Syndrome". Nicole is a registered Medical Biological Scientific Researcher Epidemiology (Epidemiologist B).