Judith Homberg, currently professor in Translational Neuroscience, did her PhD in 2004 at the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam. Her thesis focused on individual differences in vulnerability to drug addiction. As postdoc at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht she generated and characterized the first knockout rats worldwide. After obtaining a personal grant he moved to the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen to establish her own research group. Her group focusses on (serotonin-dependent) individual differences in behaviour and susceptibility to neurodevelopmental and stress-related disorders. She has strong expertise in behavioural neuroscience and bridges fundamental and clinical research. She obtained Young Investigator prizes from the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, and several prestigious national and EU-funded grants.