Jet M. J. Vonk
Jet Vonk is an Assistant Professor at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at Utrecht University (Netherlands) and an Associate Research Scientist at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University (New York, United States). She received her Ph.D. in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate Center, with a focus on neurolinguistics and cognitive science. She is currently obtaining a second PhD in Epidemiology at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on language and cognitive decline in healthy aging and dementia with behavioral methods and neuroimaging, with a focus on semantics in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Her interests and future directions include the role of semantic memory in early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, and the influence of individual differences on semantic decline in later life due to racial/ethnic, educational, and early life disparities. Her research is funded by an NWO/ZonMw Veni Grant and an NIH/NIA K99/R00 Award.
Contact
Email: j.m.j.vonk-3@umcutrecht.nl
Keywords research
dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, semantics, language, cohort, epidemiology, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, MRI, ethnicity, sex, gender, aging, cognition, disparities
Research topic
Cognitive decline from healthy aging to dementia
Type of research
Epidemiological, neuropsychological, linguistic, behavioral, cohort studies, neuroimaging
Collaborations / partnerships
- Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France