Curriculum Vitae Personal Information Surname: Given Name: Trujillo James Paul Address: Paulinastraat 62 Postal code, city and country: 2595GK, Den Haag, NL Phone-number (Netherlands): 0612846199 Email: jptrujillo88@hotmail.com Date of birth: September 28, 1988 Place of Birth: Sex: Nationality: Study Anaheim, California Male American 2004 2005 Bartlesville Home-School (High-School Diploma) Bartlesville, OK 2005 2009 Tulsa Community College (Associate of Arts -Psychology) 2009 2011 Northeastern State University (Bachelor of Arts Grade: 2.8 / 4 Tulsa, OK - Psychology; Biology) Grade: 3.5 / 4 2011 2013 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Master of Science - Neuroscience) Broken Arrow, OK Grade: 8 / 10 Amsterdam, NL
Achievements Fall 2008 Dean s Honor Roll Full-time enrollment with grade point average of at least 3.5 / 4 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Dean s Honor Roll Dean s Honor Roll 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 2012 2013 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 2013 2013 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
Work 2015 present Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Donders Centre for Cognition Center for Language Studies Position: PhD-Candidate February 2015 present 40 hours per week - Multi-modal research on the communicative aspect of language, gestures and actions using behavioural and imaging techniques 2013-2014 VU Medical Center Amsterdam, NL Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience Section Neuropsychiatry Position: Research Assistant October 2013 January 2015 36 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 and scheduling, neuropsychological and clinical assessment of subjects, and MRI data acquisition and quality checks 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 Together 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, 2013 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
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 Supervising 3 rd year VU medical students in the construction and presentation of a research proposal regarding Parkinson s disease and brain connectivity Skills MATLAB (statistics, data analysis, programming/scripting) SPM8 (fmri data cleaning and preprocessing. GLM analysis, MarsBar, Dynamic Causal Modeling, Psychophysiological Interactions) 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) Presentation (experimental design and scripting) 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, N J, Veltman, D J, Berendse, HW, van der Werf, YD, & van den Heuvel, OA (2015). Reduced neural connectivity but increased task related activity during working memory in de novo Parkinson patients. Human brain mapping, 36(4). Trujillo, JP, Gerrits, NJHM, Vriend, C, Berendse, HW, van den Heuvel, OA, & van der Werf, YD (submitted). Impaired planning in Parkinson s disease is reflected by reduced brain activation and connectivity 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. 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, VU medical center, Amsterdam Senior researcher, Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience VU medical center, Amsterdam OA.vandenHeuvel@vumc.nl +3120 44 44444 Jos van der Geest, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. Neuroscience Erasmus medical center, Rotterdam j.vandergeest@erasmusmc.nl (+31) 010 7043059 Ysbrand van der Werf, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. Anatomy & Neurosciences VU medical center, Amsterdam Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Dept. Sleep & Cognition, Amsterdam yd.vanderwerf@vumc.nl Niels Gerrits, MSc PhD student, Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience VU medical center, Amsterdam n.gerrits.@vumc