About
Seb is an Associate Professor of Neuroepidemiology at the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience and leads the research line Risk and Prevention of the Alzheimer Centre Limburg, both at Maastricht University. He conducts studies ranging from epidemiological studies on risk factors and protective factors for cognitive decline and dementia to lifestyle-based intervention and implementation studies at the individual as well as population level.
He and his team developed the ‘Lifestyle for Brain Health’ (LIBRA) score, ‘MijnBreincoach’ app, and the public health campaign ‘We are the medicine ourselves’, which have all been successfully implemented in other national and international initiatives to improve brain health. He is the co-PI of the 2-year FINGER-NL trial into a multidomain lifestyle intervention program. In the Dutch ABOARD consortium, Seb leads the work on dementia risk reduction in memory clinic patients, and he is the PI of the Netherlands Dementia Prevention Initiative, a national consortium for dementia risk reduction and part of the Dutch National Dementia Strategy. Finally, he chairs the INTERDEM Task Force Prevention.