Prof. dr. Matthijs Verhage obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1990 (cum laude). He received post-doctoral training in the UK and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Dallas, USA. Since 2000 he is full professor and head of the Department of Functional Genomics at the Vrije Universiteit and VU University Medical Center (VUmc) in Amsterdam.

In 2003 he became chairman of the directory board of the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR). Matthijs Verhage is partner of several European research consortia (EU-Synapse, EuroSpin, SynSys), a member of national and international grant committees, editorial boards and governmental advisory boards. He is also consultant/scientific advisor for Life Science companies in The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Japan. In 2001 he was the Pionier/VICI laureate of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

5 recent papers:

Mohrmann et al. (2010) Science 330:502-5
Groffen et al. (2010) Science 327:1614-8
de Wit et al. (2009) Cell 138:935-46
Gerber et al. (2008) Science 321:1507-10
Wierda et al. (2007) Neuron 54:275-90