Filip De Fruyt is appointed as senior full professor in Differential Psychology and Personality Assessment at Ghent University in Belgium. Since November 2015, he is holding the Institute Ayrton Senna (IAS) Endowed University Chair at Ghent University, studying the assessment and development of living and employability skills in youth. His research expands a broad domain including adaptive and maladaptive traits, their structure and development, cross-cultural manifestations of personality, and applied personality psychology. He is the current President of the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) and is a Governing Board member of EDULAB21 in Brazil. He has (co-)authored over 150 research papers and chapters in a broad range of leading academic journals and serves on the editorial board of different academic journals.