Dieter graduated as a medical doctor (VUB 2003) and became psychiatry registrar (UZ Brussel 2008). He is clinician (department of psychiatry) and VUB tutor and lecturer (communication, medical psychology, psychiatry,...) with research interest in addiction, neuromodulation, functional (or medically unexplained physical) symptoms, cognition and the humanities. He was principal investigator in industry-driven studies and collaborated in academic research on alcohol, TMS and tDCS, MDD and more.