Gabriël Jacobs (1977) was trained as a general adult psychiatrist and clinical pharmacologist at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR) in Leiden. He obtained his PhD on the clinical pharmacology/neuroendocrinology of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis (HPA) from Leiden University in 2010, after which he completed his clinical residency in psychiatry. From 2013 to 2016, he held a position as consultant psychiatrist at the department of general hospital psychiatry at the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam. He currently holds the position of Research Director Psychiatry at CHDR and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry of the LUMC. In addition, he supervises an internship in Clinical Psychopharmacology for residents in psychiatry at CHDR, which is recognised by the Dutch national Training Programme.