Iris Sommer (born 31 August 1970) is a Dutch psychiatrist who is professor of cognitive aspects of neurological and psychiatric disorders at the Departments of Neuroscience of

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. She previously served as Professor of Psychiatry at the

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beginning in 2011. She received her

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'' from

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in 2004. She was elected as a member of the Young Academy of the

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. She and her husband, Robert Schoevers, have two children.

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* Living people 1970 births Dutch psychiatrists People from Roermond Utrecht University alumni Dutch women psychiatrists Dutch women scientists Academic staff of Utrecht University 20th-century Dutch women physicians 21st-century Dutch women physicians 20th-century Dutch physicians 21st-century Dutch physicians {{Psychiatrist-stub