Jolien Rietkerk, Dr. rer. nat., Msc.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute for Genomics in Health
Biography
Dr. Rietkerk has a varied background in molecular life sciences, having obtained her Bachelor鈥檚 and Master鈥檚 of Science in molecular life sciences in the Netherlands. Utilizing her knowledge of biomedical molecular pathways, neuro-behavioral biology and applied data science Dr. Rietkerk鈥檚 doctoral research investigated the complex polygenic architecture of psychiatric disorders and comorbidities at Helmholtz Munich and Technical University of Munich in Germany. Dr. Rietkerk鈥檚 extensive international network and experience allow for research that is driven to have a wide societal impact and utilizes expertise of different disciplines, people and contexts. Through her efforts, Jolien aims to destigmatize and personalize psychiatric care, whilst pushing the boundaries of statistical genetics methods and big datasets.
Affiliations
- Institute for Genomics in Health, 含羞草研究所, Brooklyn, NY
- Health in Context, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
- Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
- Na Cai, Richard Border, Aditya Gorla, Jolien Rietkerk, Joel Mefford, Noah Zaitlen, Morten Dybdahl Krebs, Andrew J. Schork, Kenneth Kendler & Jonathan Flint. (2026) 鈥淭he predicament of heritable confounders鈥� Nature Genetics. DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02465-y
- Jolien Rietkerk, Morten Dybdahl Krebs, Joel Mefford, Lianyun Huang, Kajsa-Lotta Georgii Hellberg, iPSYCH Study Consortium, Anders Borglum, Thomas Werge, Kenneth S. Kendler, Jonathan Flint, Andrew J. Schork, Andrew Dahl, Na Cai (2025) 鈥淕enetic risk effects on psychiatric disorders act in sets鈥�, MedRXiv DOI:10.1101/2025.07.23.25332043
- Lianyun Huang, Sonja Tang, Jolien Rietkerk, Vivek Appadurai, Morten Dybdahl Krebs, Andrew J Schork, Thomas Werge, Verena Zuber , Kenneth Kendler, Na Cai. (2024) 鈥淧olygenic Analyses Show Important Differences Between Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms Measured Using Various Instruments鈥� Biological Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.11.021
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