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Thomas Koelewijn was born on April 12, 1979 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. In 2003 he received his MS in experimental psychology on the topic of music perception. He continued his studies with an additional two-year Research Master in Cognitive Neuroscience in Nijmegen. He did an internship at the F.C. Donders Brain imaging centre in Nijmegen. Within the field of perception and action he performed research on the human Mirror Neuron system by means of EEG and MEG recordings. They looked at modulation of primary motor areas by means of correctness and laterality of the observed movement. After his graduation in 2005 he started working as a PhD student on the topic of crossmodal spatial attention in the lab of Jan Theeuwes. His main focus was auditory and visual attention both in the spatial and temporal domain, in particular crossmodal interactions. He finished his PhD November 2009 and is currently working as a post-doc researcher at the VU university medical center. His topic is validating pupillometry as a tool for measuring listening effort while perceiving speech in different kinds of background sound. His main interest goes out to the different kind of cognitive processes causing listening effort.