Prof. dr. Danïelle Posthuma is Associate Professor in the section Functional Genomics of the VU University Amsterdam, the department Clinical Genetics of the VU Medical Centre Amsterdam and the Department Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

She studied Clinical Psychology, Physiological Psychology and Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and did a PhD at the Department of Biological Psychology, VU Amsterdam, In 2010 she started the Complex Trait Genetics-group at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research at the VU Amsterdam.

Danielle Posthuma participates in several international research consortia, national grant committees, editorial boards.In 2005 she was a VIDI laureate of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2006 she was elected as a member of the ‘Jonge Akademie’ of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.

5 recent papers:

Dupuis et al. Nature Genetics, 2010 Feb;42(2):105-16
Ruano et al., Am J Hum Genet, 2010;86(2):113-25
Tobacco and Genetics Consortium, Nat Genet. 2010 May;42(5):441-7
Gosso et al., Mol Psychiat, 2006, 11(9):878-886
Posthuma et al., Am J Hum Genet, 2005, 77(2),318-26