He is the principal investigator of the ESR namely Sabrina Doering. Their research aims to disentangle the genetic and environmental underpinnings behind the relationship between anxiety and negative life outcomes. Another goal is to try to develop prediction models in order to identify individuals with anxiety/anxiety-symptomatology that have a high likelihood of developing negative life outcomes (for example, mental health problems, poor school achievement, unemployment, sick leave, suicide attempts, and criminality).