Editor-in-Chief
Professor Ian Hickie - University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Hickie is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney. He has led major public health and health services developments in Australia, particularly focusing on early intervention for young people with depression, suicidal thoughts and behaviours and complex mood disorders. He is active in the development through codesign, implementation and continuous evaluation of new health information and personal monitoring technologies to drive highly-personalized and measurement-based care.
Executive Editors
Actively being recruited.
Dr Joanne Carpenter - University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Joanne Carpenter is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre. Her research focuses on uncovering the neurobiological basis of sleep-wake disturbance in mood disorders and understanding impacts on treatment response and other outcomes. She hopes her research will contribute to an increased understanding of how mood disorders develop and lead to improvements in the delivery of optimal treatments and early intervention.
Dr Jacob Crouse - University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Crouse's major research interest is in the neurobiology of emerging mental disorders in young people, and specifically on the role of disturbances in the 24-hour sleep/wake cycle and underlying circadian system in the onset, course, and treatment of emerging depressive and bipolar disorders.
Dr Frank Iorfino - University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Frank Iorfino is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre in Australia. His research interests and expertise are in youth mental health and early intervention with a specific focus on understanding of illness trajectories in youth and developing digital tools to transform the way we identify and manage emerging disorders.
Dr Brittany Mitchell - QIMR Berghofer, Australia
Dr Harriet Moore - University of Lincoln, UK
Dr Moore is a health geographer with a background in behavioural psychology and environmental management. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, with a focus on challenges associated with mental health data and the underrepresentation of vulnerable groups. Working with ambulance data, she has developed novel methodologies for investigating health inequalities within and between regions, urban and rural areas, and areas characterised by varying socio-economic conditions. Her portfolio emphasizes the opportunities for using emergency medical data to better understand the male mental health crisis, and the mental health experiences of communities that are less likely to schedule appointments.
Dr Laura Ospina-Pinillos - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Dr Laura Ospina Pinillos is a psychiatrist with a special interest in child, adolescent and family psychiatry. Her research focuses in the design, research and development of several technological solutions to better assist young people to manage their mental health and wellbeing; and more broadly the specific design, translation and cultural adaptation of mental health ICTs into Low-and-Middle Income Countries. In 2022 Dr Ospina-Pinillos was recognised by the Inter-American Development Bank as one of the Women champions in digital health in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dr Cathrin Rohleder - Endosane Pharmaceuticals, Germany
Dr Cathrin Rohleder is a neurobiologist specialising in mental health. She particularly focuses on the complex role of the endocannabinoid system and immune and autoimmune processes in neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr Rohleder's research portfolio includes preclinical investigations, clinical studies and randomised clinical trials (phases I, II and IV). Her research has a strong translational focus to bridge the gap between laboratory findings and clinical significance and application. In addition to her role as Chief Scientific Officer at Endosane, she is a collaborative researcher affiliated with the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney, the Central Institute of Mental Health at the University of Heidelberg and the Institute for Radiochemistry and Experimental Molecular Imaging at the University of Cologne.
Editorial Board
Actively being recruited.
Professor Richard Banati - University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Ruth Benca - Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA
Dr Enda Byrne - University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Sean Cain - Monash University, Australia
Professor Andrew Chanen - University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Sue Cotton - University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Mark Frye - Mayo Clinic, USA
Professor Adam Guastella - University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Chantal Henry - French Institute of Health and Medical Research
Dr Femke Lamers - Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
Associate Professor Lamers is Principal Investigator at the department of Psychiatry of the Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands. She is an epidemiologist and has expertise in mood disorders -in particular inflammatory phenotypes of depression-, comorbidity with somatic disease, and wearables in mood disorder research. She is also program leader of the Mental Health research program of the Amsterdam Public Health research institute.
Professor Martin Preisig - University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Associate Professor Elizabeth Scott - University of Sydney, Australia
Associate Professor Scott is a Principal Research Fellow at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney and has expertise in youth mood disorders, service developments for youth mental health, as well as sleep and circadian dysfunction through her work with the Brain & Mind Centre. Until January 2021 she was the Medical Director of Uspace – inpatient services for young people with emerging psychiatric disorders at St Vincent’s Private Hospital.
Dr Adam Skinner - University of Sydney, Australia
Dr John Torous - Harvard University, USA
Dr. Torous is active in investigating the potential of mobile mental health technologies for psychiatry.
Advisory Council
Actively being recruited.
Professor Michael Berk - Deakin University, Australia
Professor Michael Berk is currently a NHMRC Senior Principal research Fellow and is Alfred Deakin Chair of Psychiatry at Deakin University and Barwon Health, where he heads the Institute for Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT). His major interests are in the discovery and implementation of novel therapies.
Dr Michael McCarthy - University of California, USA
Dr Kathleen Merikangas - National Institute of Mental Health, USA
Dr Daniel Radford-Smith - University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Daniel Radford-Smith is a researcher in the field of biological psychiatry, with a focus on using machine learning and multi-omic techniques to investigate the molecular aspects of resilience and susceptibility to neuropsychiatric diseases.
Professor Jan Scott - Newcastle University, UK
Dr Peter Szatmari - University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Peter Szatmari's research interests are the screening, prevention and treatment of mood disorders in children and youth.
Professor Naomi Wray - University of Oxford, UK
Professor Naomi Wray's research focuses on development and application of quantitative genetics and genomics methodologies across complex diseases, disorders and traits, but particularly psychiatric-related traits. She has played a leading role in the International Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Major Depressive Disorder working group and the Australian Genetics of Depression Study.
Professor Allan Young - King's College London, UK
Professor Allan Young is Chair of Mood Disorders and Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders in the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, where he is also Head of School and Vice-Dean for Academic Psychiatry. Professor Young’s research interests focus on the cause and treatments for severe psychiatric illnesses, particularly mood disorders.