Raôul Oudejans
Professor Sport and Performance Psychology
Raôul Oudejans is a professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at AUAS. In addition, he is an associate professor in the Department of Human Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam.
Expertises
performance under pressure | training for excellence | perceptual-motor skills
Contact
- Email: r.oudejans@vu.nl
- Phone: +316 2873 6986
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About Raôul Oudejans
Raôul Oudejans is a professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at AUAS. His research group falls under the cooperation between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and AUAS within the Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science (AISS). Raôul is a movement scientist and has worked at the Vrije Universiteit since 1991, where he obtained his PhD in 1996 on the visual control of catching high arch balls in baseball. Since 2011, he has been a professor at VU Amsterdam.
Raôul conducts research on perception and movement in sports and other performance domains, with a focus on psychological factors affecting performance and learning. In recent years, he has specialised in sports psychology, the visual control of the basketball shot and performance under pressure in sports, performing arts and police.
His RAAK public research project Training for Excellence (T4X) received the third prize for research of the year at the AUAS in 2021. Raôul has over 125 scientific publications and 4 books, including Sport Psychology (Bakker & Oudejans).
Ancillary positions
- board member, Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science (AISS)
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advisor to the Military Performance Psychology (MPP) program, Training Medicine and Training Physiology (TGTF), Defense
- member of the editorial board of international scientific journals Psychology of Sport and Exercise and Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology