Artemis is an assistant professor at the Department of Biological Psychology at VU Amsterdam. Her background is in developmental and cognitive neuroscience (PhD, MSc) from University College London. She has previously worked with typical, atypical, and neuropsychiatric populations from infancy to late adulthood using cognitive, neuroimaging, and brain stimulation methods. She is particularly interested in individual variability of physiological and cognitive stress responses and the extent to which identified markers from validated measures can inform future intervention work.

“How can we validly measure physiological and cognitive stress responses in daily life using wearable and mobile technologies?”

The measurement of stress in daily life requires tools that can accurately and reliably quantify stress responses. However, many commercial “stress” wearables lack sufficient validation, and the current wearable validation landscape remains fragmented and highly variable. To address this gap, my work developed a rapid yet comprehensive validation pipeline (VP) for wearable devices, enabling systematic evaluation of validity, reliability, usability, data extraction, data quality, and participant monitoring in both laboratory and real-world settings. The VP provides a common, flexible framework that can be applied across different wearable technologies and integrates different ingredients of the SiA toolkit. In parallel, my work addresses the cognitive dimension of the stress response by reviewing and advancing tools for measuring cognition in daily life, with a focus on cognitive functions essential for self-regulation. This work includes the evaluation and development of self-reported cognition measures, mobile cognitive tasks, and passive sensing approaches such as keystroke dynamics and tappigraphy. Together, these efforts enable robust validation and assessment of stress-related physiological and cognitive processes outside the lab.

Assistant professor,
VU Amsterdam