Nanette Mol Debes is working as a neuro-pediatrician (combined research and clinical position) at the paediatric department, Herlev University Hospital in Denmark and clinical associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.

She has been the Head of the National Tourette Clinic at Herlev University Hospital, since 2021, and since 2025 she has also been Head of the Danish Sleep Center for Children and Adolescents at Herlev University Hospital/Rigshospitalet, Denmark.

She graduated from Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Holland) in 2002. In 2009, she finished her PhD study “Tourette syndrome and co-morbidity - Diagnostic process and impact of psychosocial consequences, severity of tics, pharmacological treatment, and intelligence” (University of Copenhagen). In 2014, she finished her medical specialization in paediatrics, and in 2017 the subspecialisation in neuropediatrics.

She is currently leading several scientific research projects on Tourette syndrome, paediatric headache, sleeping disorders in children and adolescents, post-streptococcal neuropsychiatric disorders, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy in children and adolescents.