Gerrit Glas is philosopher and psychiatrist. As a philosopher he holds a chair in philosophy of neuroscience at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (previously VUmc) and the H.Dooyeweerd chair in Christian Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
He is also a practicing psychiatrist and director of residency training at Dimence Groep (mental health hospital in the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands).
His research focuses on interdisciplinary issues in the field of psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy, and the humanities.