Prof. Henning Tiemeier

Biography

Prof. Henning Tiemeier is a professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the departments of child and adolescent psychiatry, and epidemiology. His main areas of interest are the aetiology of common psychiatric disorders with a particular focus lifestyle, neurodevelopment and genetics. Other interests are methodological issues in psychiatric epidemiology, and sleep research. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed publications. His H-index is 35. He is a regular keynote speaker at academic conferences both nationally and internationally. He is the principle investigator of psychiatric research in the Rotterdam Study and the child psychiatric and cognitive research line in the Generation R Cohort. Since 2013 he is adjunct faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, as a professor of epidemiology teaching child psychiatric epidemiology. He (co-)leads several national and international consortia, including CHARGE-depression, CORNET, EAGLE-behaviour group and participates in the PGC consortium

Research Interest

 neurodegenerative disorders