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Antoinette Maassen van den Brink is Professor of Neurovascular Pharmacology at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She studies the neurovascular aspects of migraine, with a special interest in the role of female sex hormones on its pathophysiology. Her research is translational in origin, including animal in vivo experimental models, human isolated tissue models, as well as human in vivo clinical models. She is a board member of the Dutch Headache Society and founding board member of the Dutch Society for Gender and Health. She is President-elect of the European Headache Federation and, together with prof. Christian Lampl, chaired the EHF congress in Vienna in December 2022. She received many prestigious research grants, include the VENI, VIDI and VICI grants from the Dutch Research Council.