Neurobiologist Jeroen Geurts (born in 1978) heads a successful and productive research group at the VU University Medical Centre and has also authored two popular-science bestsellers (Over de kop and Kopstukken). His research on neurodegenerative and cognitive disorders has an outstanding international reputation. Geurts’s books, columns, and lectures also bridge the gap between scientific research and the general public. Geurts is the founder and director of Brein in Beeld (www.breininbeeld.org), a foundation that encourages scientists to engage in public debate.
