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| Membership Number: | 7547 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7779-9672 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - ongoing Vice-President, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts, Amsterdam
- 2021- ongoing Chair, Supervisory Board, Lifelines Databeheer BV & Medical Biobank Noord-Nederland BV
- 2018 - ongoing Executive Board Member, President-Elect (2025-ongoing), European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
- 2007 - ongoing Full Professor, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- 2004 - 2007 Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam
- 2002 - 2003 Associate Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- 2000 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- 1998 - 2000 Postdoc, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam
- 1996 - 1997 Visiting Fellow Scientist, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
- 1992 - 1996 PhD-student, Vrije Universiteit
Fields of Scholarship
- Immunometabolic processes
- Precision medicine: validating biological/psychosocial mechanisms for more homogeneous patient clusters
- Life style
- Genetics and genomics
- Neuroscience
- Body-mind connection
- Epidemiology
- Psychiatry
Honours and Awards
- 2025 President-Elect, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
- 2022 Vice-President, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2022 Elected Member, Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij de Wetenschappen (KHMW)
- 2021 Johannes Judas Groen Prize for Esteemed Senior Scientist in Interdisciplinary research, SIGO
- 2019 Honorary Visiting Professor to the Goethe University, Frankfurt
- 2016 Elected Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2012 VICI Personal grant, Dutch Scientific Organization
- 2006 Elected Member, Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2006 VIDI Personal grant, Dutch Scientific Organization
- 2000 Leadership on Aging Fellowship, Brookdale Foundation
- Since 2015 Clarivate highly cited author award
