Barbara Franke is full professor of Molecular Psychiatry at Radboud University in Nijmegen, based at the Human Genetics and Psychiatry departments of Radboudumc. She is also Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. At Radboudumc, she chairs the Division of Genome Research and the Radboud Research Theme Neurodevelopmental Disorders. She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), and Academia Europaea. Educated in Giessen (Germany) and Utrecht (The Netherlands), she obtained her PhD in molecular signal-transduction in Utrecht before joining Radboud University. Her research focuses on understanding the genetic contribution to neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders and traits, especially externalizing phenotypes. Beyond gene finding, she uses complementary approaches (bioinformatics, i-neurons, small animal models, neuroimaging genetics) to map biological pathways from gene to disease. She has obtained prestigious grants, including a personal NWO Vici grant and several EU consortium grants. International collaborative research is a great motivator for her; she founded and coordinates the International Multicentre persistent ADHD Collaboration (IMpACT) and the ECNP Network “ADHD across the Lifespan”, is a co-founder of the neuroimaging genetics consortium ENIGMA, and leads ENIGMA’s ADHD Working Group and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium’s ADHD Working Group. In 2018, she was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG). Since 2019, she holds Honorary Professorships at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.