Sjoerd Repping

Prof. Sjoerd Repping is currently the director of the center for reproductive medicine at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his Master Degree in medical biology in Amsterdam in 1998 and obtained his PhD in Medicine and Genetics in 2003 in Amsterdam and at the Whitehead Institute in Boston working on genetic causes of spermatogenic failure. He became a certified clinical embryologist in 2001 and was lab director from 2005 until 2013. In 2013 he became director of the center. Furthermore he is chair of the Dutch society of clinical embryology, director of the Amsterdam Research Institute on Reproduction and Development and member of various national and international committees. He has published over 150 papers including papers in NEJM, Nature Genetics and Cell and has supervised over 20 PhD students.