Prof. Yolande Pijnenburg, Ph.D.

Yolande Pijnenburg is a behavioural neurologist working at the Alzheimer Center Amsterdam at the Amsterdam University Medical Center.

Her mean focus of research are the clinical manifestations of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia. Since 10 years she has run a neuropsychiatric clinic together with a psychiatrist where they conduct a longitudinal study called the Social Brain Project in order to investigate tools to differentiate between bvFTD and primary psychiatric disorders. She is the supervisor of 17 Ph.D. students and 4 post doc researchers. She is the chair of the Dutch FTD experts group, and together with Dr. Simon Ducharme she leads the Neuropsychiatric International Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia.

She is a Visiting Fellow at CAS at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris (Medicine, LMU) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Levin (Medicine, LMU) in the context of the CAS Research Group Tools for Transnational Neuropsychiatric Research.