Chris Baeken, MD, PhD, is a consultant psychiatrist and full-time Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Ghent University, Belgium. He also holds a part-time associate professorship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and is senior research fellow at the Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands. As Principal Investigator of the Ghent Laboratory for Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) and member of the Centre for Neurosciences at VUB, his research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms of emotion processing in both healthy and mentally ill populations. Dr Baeken specialises in multimodal neuroimaging (MRI, fMRI, PET) and neurostimulation techniques (rTMS, tDCS) to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia and dementia. His recent work explores innovative stimulation parameters and accelerated rTMS protocols, extending his research into both human and canine models.