Prof. Dr. Cagdas EKER is the head of Affective Disorders Unit of Psychiatry Department in Ege University and a senior researcher in SoCAT Lab. He worked as Adj. Assoc. Prof. of Psychiatry in New York State University in Stony Brook between 2014-19. He works on neuroimaging of affective disorders with SoCAT Lab as a partner of ENIGMA group. He is a board member of Bipolar Disorders Association of Turkey. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on mood disorders.