Education
Catholic University of Leuven.
psychologist university professor writer
Catholic University of Leuven.
His novels include Lichtenberg (1996) and Omega Minor (2004). Omega Minor has been translated into German (2006, Eichborn Verlag), English (2007, Dalkey Archive Press) French (2010, Le Cherche midi / Lot 49), and Hungarian (2011, Gondolat Kiadó). Verhaeghen is also a cognitive psychologist, currently working at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
He studied theoretical psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in Belgium.
In 1993 he earned his Doctor.Psyc. degree with the thesis Teaching old dogs new memory tricks: Plasticity in episodic memory performance in old age.