Position: Associate Professor

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I got my B.S. in Medicinal Biology and my Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. I started my career in central nervous system drug discovery in 1993 and subsequently progressed from bench scientist to senior leadership roles at global pharmaceutical companies, including Servier (France), Bayer (Germany), Roche (CA) and Sepracor (now Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, MA). My drug discovery experience covers a wide range of psychiatric and neurologic indications and I worked with many different classes of molecular targets. I joined Maastricht University in 2018. One of my research interests is the development and application of dimensional, Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)-based approaches that – in contrast to categorical approaches such as DSM-5 - provide a framework for drug discovery that is based on neuroscience.