The aim of my research is to translate fundamental insights on fear memories and emotional episodic memories to new treatments for anxiety disorders and PTSD. To this end, I take an interdisciplinary approach and employ different - yet complementary - research paradigms at several levels of analysis (from neural activity to behavioral responses). I received my PhD at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam in 2022 (Memory Transience versus Memory Persistence). In this work, which was supported by an NWO Research Talent grant, I aimed to elucidate how time, context, and memory reactivation modulate changes of emotional memory. In my postdoctoral work, funded by an ABC project grant, I studied the effects of exercise on emotional memory formation. This project involved a collaboration between the Department of Clinical Psychology, and the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, both at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam, to connect neuroscience with psychological science. Currently, at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, I pursue these interests in research that is rooted in my belief that combinations of fundamental science and clinical science offer great opportunities, particularly to improve mental healthcare.