Martine Van Puyvelde
Biography
(MD Psychology and Educational Sciences, summa cum laude, 2009; MD music, cum laude, 1998; PhD Psychology, 2014) is postdoc researcher at the Royal Military Academy Brussels (Belgium) at the multidisciplinary team VIPER (Vital Signs and PERformance monitoring) contracted by Belgian Defense, Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Clinical Psychology) and invited Professor at the John Moores University in Liverpool. She studies human performance in extreme environments (e.g., hypoxia, sleep in Antarctica, submarine environment) from a human factors approach based on both quantitative and qualitative research. Her studies cover Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS), skill decay in emergency medicine, sleep, and social and physical (touch) deprivation. In 2017-2018, she conducted a sleep study during an Antarctic Summer Campaign at the French station Dumont D’Urville. Currently, she is working on an FRMS study in BEL-pilots, and she is PI of a new selected ESA-study on social deprivation. She is also supervising a large study on the importance of touch in the psychophysiological development of young babies. Her technical expertise covers psychophysiology (cardio-respiration, HRV, SCR, PSG), acoustic voice analysis, interpersonal observation techniques and qualitative research. Besides researcher, she is a licensed Relation- & Family Therapist, a regular invited speaker and she often communicates to the press (e.g., social deprivation).
Location
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium