Judith Rosmalen

Prof. Judith Rosmalen holds the Chair of Psychosomatic Medicine at the University of Groningen, affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). She is part of the Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE). Her academic roles include Deputy President of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) and membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Education: Medical Biology (University of Utrecht, 1995), Psychology (Leiden University, 1998, cum laude), and a PhD in interactions between immune and endocrine systems (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2000).

Research interests focus on biomedical and psychosocial aspects of health, particularly persistent somatic symptoms and functional disorders. She leads the ETUDE project, an EU-funded training network on functional disorders. Her work spans epidemiology, symptom networks, and collaborative care models.

Awards include the J.J. Groen Senior Prize (2022), Open Research Award (2022), and Wayne Katon Research Award (2022). She supervises PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, contributing to studies like TRAILS and Lifelines cohorts.

Clinical involvement includes secondment to Dimence Alkura and leadership in multidisciplinary care initiatives for persistent somatic symptoms. Her research emphasizes translational approaches to improve patient outcomes in psychosomatic medicine.