Ditte Demontis is professor in psychiatric genetics at Aarhus University. The main focus of her research group is to identify biological mechanism underlying externalizing childhood psychiatric disorders and substance use disorders based onlarge-scale genetic studies of millions of common and rare genetic variants from thousands of individuals.
She spearheaded the two recent genome-wide association studies of ADHD (Demontis & Walters et al, Nature Genetics, 2019 and Demontis et al. Nature Genetics 2023), which revealed the first genome-wide significant loci for ADHD and thelarge genetic studies identifying the first robust risk loci for cannabis use disorder (Demontis et al. Nature Neuroscience 2019; Johnson, Demontis, Thorgeirsson et al. Lancet Psychiatry 2020). Her work has had a strong impact on international research in the field of psychiatric genetics, and she received the Richard Todd Award in 2019 given by the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, for her contribution to the genetics of child psychiatry.

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