Dr. Jurjen Luykx is a clinical scientist at Amsterdam UMC and GGZ inGeest. He has a research background in psychiatric genetics and an interest in neurobiological, clinical, environmental, and societal issues related to psychiatry (including planetary mental health).

Jurjen consults patients with difficult-to-treat psychosis, bipolar disorder and other types of severe mental illness. He enjoys conducting collaborative work in teams of researchers and clinicians, focusing on clinical trials, real-world studies and applied neuropsychiatric genetics. Internationally, he spearheads several projects related to the aforementioned topics in psychiatry. In the department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC he leads a transdisciplinary group of postdocs, PhD students and master students, working on several projects. Together, they aim to translate research findings to patients in the real world and convey such findings to students and residents, thus boosting precision psychiatry.