René Hurlemann completed his MD at the University of Bonn, Germany, in 2001, with a doctoral thesis on intracranial recordings in temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Later, he focused on stress-related emotion-cognition interactions and received his M.Sc. (2006) and Ph.D. (2007) from Maastricht University. René trained in Psychiatry at the University Hospital Bonn and received the venia docendi [Habilitation (Assistant Professor)] in 2010. He was appointed Associate Professor (W2) and Head of the Medical Psychology Division in 2013. Two years later he became Deputy Head of the Dept. of Psychiatry. In 2019, René moved to the School of Medicine & Health Sciences of the University of Oldenburg as Full Professor (W3) and Head of the Dept. of Psychiatry, which provides clinical service for 120 inpatients and is part of the Karl-Jaspers psychiatric hospital. As clinician scientist, he is committed to the field of precision psychiatry and has joined the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) section on Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry as well as the editorial boards of Journal of Psychiatric Research (Elsevier), Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry (Elsevier), Journal of Personalized Medicine (MDPI), Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI), Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience and Der Nervenarzt (Springer). René is principal investigator (PI) of the Neuromodulation of Emotion (NEMO) research program, which is focused on developing cutting-edge experimental therapies along two research trajectories: (i) Neuromodulation [via hormonal (oxytocin), pharmacological (ketamine) and functional connectivity-guided brain stimulation (TBS) methods], and (ii) Digital phenotyping & therapeutics [in cooperation with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and partners from industry]. His research is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Else Kroener Fresenius Foundation (EKFS), German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research & Development (GIF) and German Federal Ministry of Educastion & Research (BMBF). René is affiliate investigator at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR), Tulsa (OK, USA), co-director of the Summer School on Affective Neuroscience organized by the University of Maastricht and has joined >10 professional societies including the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) and the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SoBP). In addition, he serves as ad-hoc referee for >20 international funding agencies, >80 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, and several prize and academic appointment committees.