1993 Doctorate, Epidemiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Prof. Albert Hofman
1987 Doctorate, Medicine, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
1978-1987 Studies of Medicine, Medical Doctor, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2011-present Director, Population Health Sciences, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn
2011-present W3 Professor, Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn
2003-2011 Professor of Neuroepidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2002-2021 Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
2000-2003 Associate Professor of Neuroepidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2000-2001 Visiting Scholar, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA
1996-2011 Head of Neuroepidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1994-1995 Research associate, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1994 Postdoctoral fellow, INSERMU360, Paris, France
2019-present Steering Committee Member, Cluster of Excellence “ImmunoSensation/ImmunoSensation2”, University of Bonn
2019 Elected Member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences
2018, 2019 Listed in the ‘World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’ (Thomson Reuters) Highly Cited Researcher Cross-Field
2017-present Member, Oversight Board Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), Medical Research Council
2017-present Member, External Advisory Board, Wellcome Center for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford
2015-present Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2014 Listed in the ‘World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’ (Thomson Reuters) Highly Cited Researcher in Clinical Medicine
2013-2018 Helmholtz Think Tank, Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
2013-present Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
2012 Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Awards in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Alzheimer’s Association
2009-2011 President, International Society on Vascular Behavioural Cognitive Disorders (VasCog)
2008 Member, Helmholtz Association Advisory Board for the initiation of the German National Cohort
2003-2011 Founding Member, Executive Board, International Society on Vascular Behavioural Cognitive Disorders (VasCog)
