As of January 1st 2011, Danielle Posthuma has been appointed Professor of Genetics of Complex Traits.
As of January 1st 2011, Danielle Posthuma of the Department of Functional Genomics (Center of Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research) at the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences has been appointed Professor of Genetics of Complex Traits on the Fenna Diemer Lindeboom Chair. She will be working on the development of new statistical and bioinformatical methods to unravel networks of genes involved in cognitive functions (memory, learning, attention) and cognitive dysfunctions (such as those associated with schizophrenia, autism, or ADHD).
With this appointment the VU University Amsterdam presents Danielle Posthuma as a female top-talent and a role model for junior researchers and (future) students. Posthuma will hold one of the Fenna Diemer Lindeboom Chairs that have been created in 2005 to increase the number of female professors at the VU University Amsterdam. The chair is named after Dr. Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom, who was a defender of women’s interests at the VU University and passed away in 2004.