Wouter Peyrot is psychiatrist and senior statistical genetics researcher at the Department of Psychiatry of Amsterdam UMC (location VUmc). He obtained his PhD (cum laude) in 2017, and was awarded with a Rubicon and Veni grant in 2018, which he combined with a postdoctoral fellowship in statistical genetics at Harvard University in America. His current research aims to capitalize the great progress in genetic research to the benefit of individual patients, by developing novel genetic methods inspired by his clinical work as psychiatrist.