Christiaan Vinkers

Christiaan Vinkers is a psychiatrist and full professor at the Amsterdam UMC, where he holds several key positions, including program leader of the MAPSS research program of Amsterdam Neuroscience. His journey began with degrees in Pharmacy, Medicine, and Law, culminating in a cum laude PhD focused on stress and behavior in rodents. Nationally, he is the founder of the STRESS-NL foundation, member of the KNAW ‘Raad Medische Wetenschappen’. Internationally, he is the Chair of the Resilience Network of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP). His research is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating insights from psychology, neuroscience, biology, and lived experiences with cutting-edge approaches such as big data analytics. His focus is on understanding stress and resilience in real-world and controlled settings, using daily life stress measurements and linking them to laboratory findings through consortia like DESTRESS and Stress-in-Action