I am a PhD candidate within the Amsterdam Emotional Memory Lab at the Department of Clinical Psychology, under the supervision of Merel Kindt, Renée Visser, and Eus van Someren. My work focuses on the role of sleep in emotional memory plasticity. Specifically, I am interested in whether sleep alters the emotional intensity of emotionally charged memories during their consolidation, and whether sleep’s effect is influenced by other factors like future relevance. Additionally, I investigate sleep’s role in the development of intrusive memories.