Professor Dr. Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and epidemiologist, joined the University of York as one of the 60th Anniversary inspirational research leaders with a Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology in 2018. She moved to York from the Netherlands, where she held an endowed chair at Tilburg University as Professor of Social Psychiatry from 2010–2019. She is a member of the Mental Health and Addictions Research Group (MHARG) at the University of York’s Department of Health Sciences, and holds a joint appointment with the Hull York Medical School (HYMS). She is registered as a psychiatrist with full licence to practice in the UK and as an honorary consultant psychiatrist with Tees Esk and Wear Valley (TEWV) NHS Trust. She provides a specialist assessment service and treatment for people with complex combined somatic and psychiatric conditions. She registered as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in 1992, and as an epidemiologist in 1996. She completed her doctorate (PhD 2002) on psychiatric consultation for patients with somatoform disorder in general practice at VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam. She has generated competitive research income of € 24.8M in the Netherlands, European funding and the UK, as the main applicant and co-applicant.