P. Eline Slagboom is professor of molecular epidemiology. She is head of the section of Molecular Epidemiology within the department of Biomedical Data Sciences. She is chair of the LUMC Medical Research Profile on Ageing and of the DUSRA – Dutch Society for Research on Ageing. Slagboom is PI of the Leiden Longevity Study and Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologn, Germany. She is board member of BBMRI-NL (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure) steering national studies in metabolomics. Slagboom is member of the organising committee of various prestigious international conferences (such as the Welcome Trust, UK).