| Meike Bartels | |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Fields: | Behavior genetics Psychology |
| Workplaces: | VU University Amsterdam |
| Education: | VU University Amsterdam Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics |
| Thesis Title: | Behavior problems, cognition, and hormones: A longitudinal-genetic study in childhood |
| Thesis Url: | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/behavior-problems-cognition-and-hormones-a-longitudinal-genetic-s |
| Thesis Year: | 2003 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Dorret Boomsma |
| Known For: | Research on genetics of well-being |
| Awards: | Fuller & Scott Award from the Behavior Genetics Association (2008) |
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Meike Bartels (born 1973) is a Dutch psychologist and behavior geneticist known for her research on the genetics of happiness and subjective well-being. She is professor in "Behavior and Quantitative Genetics" at the Department of Biological Psychology at VU University Amsterdam and affiliated with the Amsterdam Public Health Institute. She also holds a University Research Chair in Genetics and Wellbeing at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.[1] [2] In 2008, she received the Fuller & Scott Award from the Behavior Genetics Association.[3] She is one of the principal investigators on the study finding genetic variants related to well-being [4]