Maxime Verwoert has obtained her BSc in Psychology, with a focus on cognitive and neurobiological psychology, and her MSc degree in Neuroscience and Cognition at Utrecht University. Early on she had developed an interest in fMRI methodology in cognitive research and has recently completed a research project on selective attention to audiovisual speech using fMRI at the University of Helsinki.

She is currently the flow manager of the RIBS research group and involved in assisting with fMRI scans for clinical and research purposes.