
Louk Vanderschuren is Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD degree at Utrecht University, and subsequently worked at the VU University Amsterdam, the University of Cambridge and the University Medical Center Utrecht before joining the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht. His research is in the neurobiology of social play behaviour, impulsive behaviour and substance addiction; he has published >150 articles on these topics. He is the past President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society.