Ute Bültmann is full Professor of Work and Health in the Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine at the University Medical Center Groningen/University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She completed both her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. From 2003 until 2007, she worked at the National Institute of Occupational Health in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research includes the epidemiology of work and (mental) health and the measurement of health-related functioning at work. In addition to collaborative work and health research in Canada, she is affiliated with the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen (DK) and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (SE). She is Vice-President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) Section "Social Security, Work and Health." She (co-)authored more than 200 scientific publications. Her current research activities focus on work and health research from a life-course perspective with strong policy and practice links. She is a VICI laureate of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research on "Today's youth is tomorrow's workforce: Generation Y at work."