Professor Nine Knoers is currently the chair of the Department of Genetics at the University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands.  She received her M.D. (1986) and Ph.D. (cum laude, 1990) from the Catholic University Nijmegen. She was trained and certified as Clinical Geneticist at the Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen. From 2011 until 2018, she was chair of the Department of Genetics at the University Medical Centre Utrecht. She was chair of the Dutch Society of Clinical Genetics (2007-2015) and Member of the Dutch Health Council (2008-2018). In 2017, she became Honorary member of the Dutch Society of Clinical Genetics, as recognition of major contributions to Clinical Genetics and to professionalization of the Society. Her major research effort focuses on the identification of genes for inherited renal disorders and on their pathophysiology to find clues for treatment. Over the past years, her team has substantially contributed to the elucidation and characterization of genes involved in hereditary kidney diseases, among which genes for nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, for renal hypomagnesemia, for syndromic nephronophthisis, and for congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT). Nine has an extensive (inter)national network, is member of European Consortia on genetic renal disorders (EURenOmics, ERKNet) and coordinated the Dutch Scientific Consortium on renal ciliopathies “Kouncil”. She was awarded the Donald Seldin Lectureship of the International Society of Nephrology (2013), as a recognition of a major contribution in basic science related to nephrology and the Catharijne oeuvre award 2016 (Catharijne foundation) for groundbreaking contributions to nephrogenetics. She has published over 300 scientific papers, including papers in Nature Genetics, Science, Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine and 28 Chapters in books. In the last 10 years, she delivered >250 invited lectures.  With more than 16,000 citations to date, her current H-index is 68 (November 2022). She has successfully supervised over 25 PhD students.