My name is Ruth van Holst. I am a senior researcher and associate professor in the Psychiatry Department of the AmsterdamUMC – location AMC. Within the AIAR I am active in the research line ‘Fundamental/experimental research‘. I am also a member of the Academic Workplace Addiction and I am involved in the Center for Urban Mental Health, which is affiliated with the UvA. I obtained my PhD in 2011 on neuroimaging studies in pathological gambling: similarities and differences with alcohol dependence at the University of Amsterdam.