Prof Dr Madelon Peters (M.L.)

Madelon Peters is professor in Experimental Health Psychology. She chairs the section Experimental Health Psychology.

Her research focuses on risk and resilience factors in relation to (chronic) pain.

Expertises

research topics:

  • risk and resilience for chronic pain
  • predictors of acute and chronic post surgical pain
  • positive psychology, more in particular optimism
  • positive psychology interventions
  • predictors of quality of life after cancer treatment

 

Career history

 

2007-present     Professor of Experimental Health Psychology, Maastricht University

2002-2007         Associate professor (UHD), Maastricht University

1997-2002         Assistant professor (UD), Maastricht Universit

1996-1997         Post-doc researcher, University Utrecht

1993-1996         Post-doc researcher, University Utrecht

1991-1992         Project Manager, Institute of Human Psychopharmacology  

1987-1991         PhD-student, Maastricht University