Ruth M. Krebs PhD

Ruth M. Krebs is a Professor at Ghent University at Ghent University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology on motivational processes in the human brain in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Afterward, she took on a postdoctoral fellowship at Ghent University, funded by the FWO. Since 2013, she is a lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, at Ghent University. Her research focuses on motivational processes in the human brain, and specifically, on how motivation influences cognitive functions, emotional processes, and long-term memories.