Nilosmita Banerjee

PhD Researcher (FNRS FRESH Doctoral Fellow)

ABOUT ME

Nilosmita Banerjee is a PhD researcher at Laboratory of Medical Psychology and Addiction at Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels) in collaboration with the Department of Experimental Psychology at University of Gent (Gent) in Belgium.She is currently investigating the multifaceted expression of loss-chasing in online gambling during her doctoral degree. Her research interests include studying risky decision making in gambling and gambling like financial environments.She received her Masters of Science in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience and Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield (UK). She was a national-level gold-medalist in Psychology at A-Levels in India.

PRE-REGISTERED PROJECTS

Banerjee, N., Noël, X., & Chen, Z. (2025a). Between-session chasing in a large-scale
online gambling data: Assessing the time of return following losses and wins.Banerjee, N., Noël, X., & Chen, Z. (2025b). Between-session chasing in a large-scale
online gambling data: Assessing the session wager and session duration following
losses and wins.All the pre-registrations can be accessed in the OSF repository linked below.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Banerjee, N., Noël, X., & Chen, Z. (2025). Effects of winning and losing streaks on within-session chasing in online gambling: A replication and extension study. International Gambling Studies, 1-25.

  • Banerjee, N., Chen, Z., Clark, L., & Noël, X. (2023). Behavioural expressions of loss-chasing in gambling: A systematic scoping review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105377.

  • Wyckmans, F., Banerjee, N., Saeremans, M., Otto, R., Kornreich, C., Vanderijst, L., ... & Noël, X. (2022). The modulation of acute stress on model-free and model-based reinforcement learning in gambling disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11(3), 831-844.

CONTACT

EMAIL: [email protected]
LOCATION:
Faculty of Medicine,
Laboratory of Medical Psychology and Addiction,
Brugmann Hospital - CP 403/20,
Place Van Gehuchten, 4
1020 Brussels

ACADEMIC AWARDS

A-Levels Awards
Merit Award for outstanding academic performance - Senior Secondary level (2011 - 2012)State-level Gold Medalist A-Levels Psychology (2013) awarded by Indian National Govt.University Awards
Faculty of Sciences Scholarship BSc (University of Sheffield) (2016 - 2019)Department of Psychology Alumni Merit Scholarship MSc (University of Sheffield) (2019 - 2021)International Merit Scholarship MSc (University of Sheffield) (2019 - 2021)Doctoral Fellowship
Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) under the FRESH Doctoral fellowship
Award (2022 - 2026)

ACADEMIC ROLES

Associate Editor at the Journal of European Psychology StudentsFounder and Committee Member of the Pan-European Gambling Journal Club (created in collaboration with Academic Forum of the Study of Gambling and GREO)Supervision - Currently supervised Masters students at Université libre de Bruxelles in experimental projects assessing the expression of loss-chasing in gambling experimental paradigms in online studies.Peer-review - I have peer-reviewed gambling studies for Addictive Behavior , Frontiers in Psychology and the research proposals for the ZonMw grant.

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