Matthijs Brouwer
Matthijs Brouwer studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his medical degree in 2002. After working for a year as a neurology resident at the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis in Amsterdam, he started his neurology residency at the Academic Medical Center (now Amsterdam UMC), finishing in 2010. During his residency, he established a national cohort study on genetic risk factors for bacterial meningitis, which formed the basis of his PhD dissertation, “Bacterial Meningitis in Adults: Clinical Characteristics, Risk Factors and Adjunctive Treatment,” completed at the University of Amsterdam in 2010. In 2011, Matthijs conducted research at the Klinikum Grosshadern (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat) in Munich, investigating the role of fibrinolysis in the development of cerebrovascular complications in an experimental meningitis model. In 2012, he returned to the Amsterdam UMC as a neurologist specializing in neurological infectious diseases and neuroimmunological disorders. In 2020, he received the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to research innovative methods for diagnosing encephalitis.