She started her line of research into happiness with a VENI and open competition grant from NWO. In 2014, she was appointed Professor under the University Research Program of the VU. She published, among other things, the first molecular genetic evidence and the first genetic variants for wellbeing. She received an ERC Consolidator grant to consolidate her research line and an NWO-VICI grant to further expand her research.
She is a board member of the International Positive Psychology Association and was director of the Research Master Genes in Behaviour and Health. She leads and supervises various research projects to gain insight into the underlying sources of variation in happiness and wellbeing and repositioning of WB from passive outcome to dynamic, context-sensitive catalyst. With the foundation XplorIT (the foundation for wellbeing and human potential), she explores a paradigm shift towards a new governance of commons, in which the principles of wellbeing are the starting point, enabling collectives of human potential - in order to address today’s and tomorrow’s societal challenges.
Prof. dr. Meike Bartels
Prof. dr. Meike Bartels is a University Research Chair Professor in Genetics and Well-being at the Department of Biological Psychology.
