Prof. Eduard Vieta

Eduard Vieta is Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Hospital Clinic, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Over the past 7 years, Dr. Vieta has also served as Scientific Director of the Spanish Research Network on Mental Health (CIBERSAM). He has received the Aristotle award (2005), the Mogens Schou award (2007), the Strategic Research award of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry (2009), the Official College of Physicians award to Professional Excellence (2011), the Colvin Price on Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research by the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation (2012), the Clinical Neuroscience Lilly award by the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP 2014), the Simon Bolivar Award (American Psychiatric Association 2017) the Research Price of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP, 2017), the Trueta Prize (2021), the University of Barcelona award on scientific dissemination and humanities (2022), the Maimonides award from the University of Cordoba (2023) and the Kupfer-Frank Prize from the International Society of Bipolar Disorders (2024).. Moreover, he has been named best psychiatrist in Spain (Monitor sanitario, El Español), Admirable (Diario Médico), honorary member of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry, Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Valencia, and member of the Spanish Brain Council and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia. He has authored more than 1400 original articles, 500 book chapters and 50 books. His current h index is 172 and has over 120.000 citations (Google Scholar), which makes him the most cited scientist worldwide in the field of bipolar disorder over the last 9 years and one of the world’s most influential scientific minds, according to Clarivate Analytics ranking (Highly Cited). His papers have over one million downloads. Furthermore, he is Editor-in-Chief of European Neuropsychopharmacology, has served as invited professor at McLean Hospital and Harvard University, and as neuroscience scientific advisor to the European Presidency.

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