Anja Lok Amsterdam UMC

Polymorf is verry proud to have setup a long-term collaboration with Psychiatrist and researcher Anja Lok. Anja will work as a top science advisor and collaborator for the New Polymorf and Studio Biarritz IX project: The Microbiome Restaurant, scheduled for Nov 2026. And Anja is consortium partner at the IOOI-Inside Out Outside In, IX research project submitted for ADRIE, CIIIC 2026 and 2027. Fellow consortium Partners are, Studio Biarritz, Waag Futurelab, Idfa DocLab, Edit Kaldor and Ulrike Quade Compagny and Amsterdam UMC.

Anja Lok is a psychiatrist, researcher, and conceptual artist working at the intersection of art and science at Amsterdam UMC and the University of Amsterdam. In her work, she focuses on mood disorders in adolescents and young adults, exploring how body, brain, and environment interact to shape mental health. She is particularly interested in phenomena that elude classical psychiatric frameworks such as anhedonia, embodied experience, and the role of the microbiome and seeks new ways of understanding and treating these conditions, in which art and imagination also have a place.