Stefan Jansen is an Associate Professor in Neuroscience and works at the University of Rwanda (UR), College of Medicine, and Health Sciences (CMHS) as Director of Research and Innovation at UR/CMHS.
He runs multiple internationally funded and multi-country research projects on intergenerational trauma, alcohol and drug abuse, community based psychosocial interventions, using both applied and fundamental science, and introducing state-of-the-art research approaches, including neuroimaging, genetics/epigenetics research, Randomized Controlled Trials, ethnography, and behavioral economics. Crucially, he has a firm commitment to embedding his research in local understanding and knowledge, using psychometrics to adapt, develop and/or validate appropriate data collection tools.