Dennis Ent, van t

View Scopus Profile

dr. Dennis van t Ent

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2001-1375

Personal profile

Ancillary activities

No ancillary activities

Ancillary activities are updated daily

Personal information

I am an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), specializing in Biological Psychology. Additionally, I serve as the Director of the Psychology Bachelor’s Program at VU.

I originally studied Physics and Astronomy in Amsterdam, specializing in Medical Physics, before earning my PhD in Rotterdam, where I focused on EEG recordings related to cognition. Afterward, I returned to Amsterdam to pursue a postdoctoral position at the VU Medical Center, working with magnetoencephalography (MEG). In 2005, I joined the Department of Biological Psychology at the Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences at VU University Amsterdam, where I remain affiliated. My current research lies at the intersection of genetics, neuroimaging, and behavior, with a particular focus on the heritability of brain structure and function, as well as genetic and environmental influences on brain and behavior. At our department, we manage the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), which enables me to investigate how genetic and environmental factors shape the brain and behavior across the lifespan.

With over 20 years of teaching experience, I have coordinated and taught courses across all three years of the Psychology Bachelor’s program, as well as in multiple master’s programs at VU. In recent years, I have taken on broader responsibilities, including coordinating the third-year bachelor’s track “Genes, Cognition, and Behavior” and overseeing methodology education in the faculty’s bachelor’s programs. A current project under my leadership focuses on transitioning to new statistical software to ensure the curriculum aligns with modern data analysis standards.

Beyond teaching, I have extensive experience in assessment quality assurance. I first served as a member, then chair, of the Psychology Examination Board subcommittee. For over seven years, I have been involved in exam evaluations, thesis assessment reviews, fraud investigations, and accreditation processes. As of January 2025, I have been appointed Director of the Psychology Bachelor’s Program at VU.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics where Dennis van t Ent is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
  • 1 Similar Profiles
View full fingerprint

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
Explore network further

  • Genomic analysis of intracranial and subcortical brain volumes yields polygenic scores accounting for variation across ancestries

    García-Marín, L. M., Campos, A. I., Diaz-Torres, S., Rabinowitz, J. A., Ceja, Z., Mitchell, B. L., Grasby, K. L., Thorp, J. G., Agartz, I., Alhusaini, S., Ames, D., Amouyel, P., Andreassen, O. A., Arfanakis, K., Arias-Vasquez, A., Armstrong, N. J., Athanasiu, L., Bastin, M. E., Beiser, A. S. & Bennett, D. A. & 170 others, Bis, J. C., Boks, M. P. M., Boomsma, D. I., Brodaty, H., Brouwer, R. M., Buitelaar, J. K., Burkhardt, R., Cahn, W., Calhoun, V. D., Carmichael, O. T., Chakravarty, M., Chen, Q., Ching, C. R. K., Cichon, S., Crespo-Facorro, B., Crivello, F., Dale, A. M., Smith, G. D., de Geus, E. J. C., De Jager, P. L., de Zubicaray, G. I., Debette, S., DeCarli, C., Depondt, C., Desrivières, S., Djurovic, S., Ehrlich, S., Erk, S., Espeseth, T., Fernández, G., Filippi, I., Fisher, S. E., Fleischman, D. A., Fletcher, E., Fornage, M., Forstner, A. J., Francks, C., Franke, B., Ge, T., Goldman, A. L., Grabe, H. J., Green, R. C., Grimm, O., Groenewold, N. A., Gruber, O., Gudnason, V., Håberg, A. K., Haukvik, U. K., Heinz, A., Hibar, D. P., Hilal, S., Himali, J. J., Ho, B. C., Hoehn, D. F., Hoekstra, P. J., Hofer, E., Hoffmann, W., Holmes, A. J., Homuth, G., Hosten, N., Ikram, M. K., Ipser, J. C., Jack, C. R., Jahanshad, N., Jönsson, E. G., Kahn, R. S., Kanai, R., Klein, M., Knol, M. J., Launer, L. J., Lawrie, S. M., Hellard, S. L., Lee, P. H., Lemaître, H., Li, S., Liewald, D. C. M., Lin, H., Longstreth, W. T., Lopez, O. L., Luciano, M., Maillard, P., Marquand, A. F., Martin, N. G., Martinot, J. L., Mather, K. A., Mattay, V. S., McMahon, K. L., Mecocci, P., Melle, I., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Mirza-Schreiber, N., Milaneschi, Y., Mosley, T. H., Mühleisen, T. W., Müller-Myhsok, B., Maniega, S. M., Nauck, M., Nho, K., Niessen, W. J., Nöthen, M. M., Nyquist, P. A., Oosterlaan, J., Pandolfo, M., Paus, T., Pausova, Z., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Pike, G. B., Psaty, B. M., Pütz, B., Reppermund, S., Rietschel, M. D., Risacher, S. L., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Romero-Garcia, R., Roshchupkin, G. V., Rotter, J. I., Sachdev, P. S., Sämann, P. G., Saremi, A., Sargurupremraj, M., Saykin, A. J., Schmaal, L., Schmidt, H., Schmidt, R., Schofield, P. R., Scholz, M., Schumann, G., Schwarz, E., Shen, L., Shin, J., Sisodiya, S. M., Smith, A. V., Smoller, J. W., Soininen, H. S., Steen, V. M., Stein, D. J., Stein, J. L., Thomopoulos, S. I., Toga, A. W., Tordesillas-Gutiérrez, D., Trollor, J. N., Valdes-Hernandez, M. C., van ′t Ent, D., van Bokhoven, H., van der Meer, D., van der Wee, N. J. A., Vázquez-Bourgon, J., Veltman, D. J., Vernooij, M. W., Villringer, A., Vinke, L. N., Völzke, H., Walter, H., Wardlaw, J. M., Weinberger, D. R., Weiner, M. W., Wen, W., Westlye, L. T., Westman, E., White, T., Witte, A. V., Wolf, C., Yang, J., Zwiers, M. P., Ikram, M. A., Seshadri, S., Thompson, P. M., Satizabal, C. L., Medland, S. E. & Rentería, M. E., Nov 2024, In: Nature genetics. 56, 11, p. 2333-2344 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

    Open Access
    File
    2 Downloads (Pure)

  • Brain-age prediction: Systematic evaluation of site effects, and sample age range and size

    Yu, Y., Boomsma, D. I., Van't Ent, D., Frangou, S., Ge, R. & ENIGMA Lifespan Working Group, 15 Jul 2024, In: Human Brain Mapping. 45, 10, e26768.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Normative modelling of brain morphometry across the lifespan with CentileBrain: algorithm benchmarking and model optimisation

    Ge, R., Yu, Y., Qi, Y. X., Boomsma, D. I., Crone, E. A., Hulshoff Pol, H. E., Jahanshad, N., Thompson, P. M., Frangou, S., van 't Ent, D. & ENIGMA Lifespan Working Group, Mar 2024, In: The Lancet. Digital Health. 6, 3, p. e211-e221

    Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Beyond the Global Brain Differences: Intraindividual Variability Differences in 1q21.1 Distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Deletion Carriers

    Boen, R., Kaufmann, T., van der Meer, D., Boomsma, D. I., de Geus, E. J. C., van ’t Ent, D., Alnæs, D., Andreassen, O. A., Sønderby, I. E. & ENIGMA-CNV working group, 15 Jan 2024, In: Biological psychiatry. 95, 2, p. 147-160 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

    Open Access

  • The Genetic and Neural Substrates of Externalizing Behavior

    Baselmans, B., Hammerschlag, A. R., Noordijk, S., Ip, H., van der Zee, M., de Geus, E., Abdellaoui, A., Treur, J. L. & van 't Ent, D., Oct 2022, In: Biological psychiatry global open science. 2, 4, p. 389-399 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

    Open Access
View all 74 research outputs
  • 4 Membership
  • 3 Lecture / Presentation
  • 1 Editorial work
View all 8 activities