Jeroen Geurts
Vice President for Healthcare Outcomes Policy and
Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
Board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Penn State
Norway
Biography
Jeroen J.G. Geurts, PhD, is professor of translational neuroscience and heads the dept. of Anatomy & Neurosciences at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. He obtained a cum laude PhD in 2005 for his research on grey matter abnormalities in multiple sclerosis (MS). His field of expertise is clinical and translational neuroscience, with an emphasis on post mortem imaging. Within this field, he focuses on MS and primary neurodegenerative diseases. Geurts' debut in popularized science was "Over de kop: fascinerende vragen over het brein"
Research Interest
He is director of Stichting Brein in Beeld, a foundation that promotes science valorisation and societal debate, and he commented regularly on neuroscience on Radio 1 and 3FM. He was elected a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Institute for the Arts & Sciences in 2012 and became chair in 2013. Since 2017, Jeroen became Board Chair of ZonMw and Member of the Board of Directors of NWO.
