Prof. dr. C.L. (Cleo) Crunelle,

Prof. dr. Cleo L. Crunelle is assistant professor (Psychiatry and Addiction) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and a practicing physician specialized in addiction medicine at the University Hospital Brussels (UZ Brussel, dpt. of Psychiatry) with specific expertise in addiction, ADHD, neuroimaging and toxicology. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and completed her PhD (Medical Sciences) at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) on the development of new neurobiological strategies to treat patients with addictions. She is engaged in several clinical and preclinical projects, with a specific focus on the treatment of alcohol and substance use disorders overlapping with other psychiatric comorbid disorders including adult ADHD. In 2018, she obtained a second PhD (Pharmaceutical Sciences) with a focus on alcohol biomarkers. She thus far published over ninety articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals, and actively supervises Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Prof. Crunelle is a board member of the International Collaboration on ADHD and Substance Use Disorders (ICASA), of the Belgian College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (BCNBP) and of the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie (VVP), and an active member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). Since 2020, she is an appointed expert of the Belgian Superior Health Council and the co-founder and editor of the Dutch peer-review journal ‘Tijdschrift verslaving & herstel’.