Femke Lamers (1980) is Associate professor at Amsterdam UMC, and programme leader of the Amsterdam Public Health Mental health research programme. Femke is PI of the PERCIM and INFLAMED study, both investigating personalised medicine options for immuno-metabolic depression. She is also involved in projects using wearables, apps and other ambulatory assessments. Such as the NWO Gravitation project Stress in Action, the RADAR-MDD project, the EMA/actigraphy study within NESDA and EMOCA study. Her research interests are the heterogeneity of depressive disorder, subtypes of depression, atypical depression, associations depression and physical functioning, ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and actigraphy.

Femke obtained her Masters degree in Human Nutrition with a specialisation in Epidemiology from the Wageningen University in 2003. In 2008, she received her PhD degree from the Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University. Her PhD was on an RCT evaluating the (cost-)effectiveness of a nurse-led minimal psychological intervention in reducing depressive symptoms in chronically ill elderly persons. From 2008-2010 she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on NESDA at GGZ inGeest/VUmc in Amsterdam. Here, she focused on the heterogeneity of depression, depression symptom profiles and associations between depressive disorders and physical functioning. In 2010 she was awarded with a Rubicon fellowship (NWO). Femke spent the next three years as Visiting fellow at the Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, USA. There she continued her work on depressive subtypes. In 2013, she returned to GGZ inGeest/VUmc as assistant professor. She was supported by a FP7-Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (HETODEP study). Femke Lamers is a certified Epidemiologist with the Netherlands Epidemiological Society/SMBWO.