Barbara Franke#
| Membership Number: | 4108 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ru.nl/people/donders/franke-b |
| ORCID: | orcid.org/0000-0003-4375-6572 |
| Twitter: | @BFranke_lab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Leader of the Radboud Research Theme Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- 2012 - present Full Professor of Molecular Psychiatry, Radboud
- 2011 - 2015 Official leader of the Plasticity & Memory Theme of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
- 2009 - 2011 Associate Professor of Molecular Psychiatry, Radboud
- 2003 - 2008 Assistant Professor in Genetics of Multifactorial Diseases, Department of Human Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Radboud
- 2001 - present Head of the Research Lab for Multifactorial Diseases, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud
- 1999 - 2001 Postdoc project, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud
- 1995 - 1999 Doctorate study (PhD), University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry (Thesis: Rap and Ral in platelet signaling, 22-04-1999; promotors Prof. Dr. J.L. Bos and Prof. Dr. J.W. Akkerman)
Fields of Scholarship
- Human genetics
- Multifactorial genetics
- Psychiatric disorders
- Neuro-development
- ADHD and autism
- Neuro-imaging genetics
- Molecular genetics
- Bio-informatics
- Cognomics
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Expertscape Top-10 expert on ADHD: http://expertscape.com/ex/attention+deficit+disorder+with+hyperactivity
- 2019 Honorary Skou Professorship at the Faculty of Health of Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- 2019 Royal award of Knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion for excellent scientific work in psychiatry, especially ADHD
- 2019 Honorary Adjunct Professorship at Medical Faculty of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2019 Clarivate Highly Cited 2018 list (top 1% most highly cited researchers; cross-field category)
- 2017 Elected to join the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2017 Elected to join the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
- 2015 Elected to join Academia Europaea
- 2013 NWO Vici personal grant, the largest personal career award in science in The Netherlands (1.5 M€)
- 2013 Hermesdorf prize International Award of Radboud University for media coverage of research in 2012
- 2012 NWO Aspasia premium for excellent women in science (150 K€)
- 2007 Affymetrix Power Award
- 2007 Topcentre for Genetic and Metabolic Diseases (TGM) of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre: Lustrum award for research and teaching activities
