Paolo Brambilla

PAOLO BRAMBILLA
Medical Doctor, Child and Adult Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst in training-ISIPSE-Milano
Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology and Neurophysiology
Full Professor of Psychiatry (Tenured position), University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Adjunct Full Professor of Psychiatry, UTHouston, USA
Director, Department of Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Program Director, Bachelor Degree in Professional Educator, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Director, School of Residency in Psychiatry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Councillor, ECNP executive committee
Co-Chair, EPA Neuroimaging & Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Sections
Co-Chair, ECNP Neuroimaging Network
Editor-in-Chief, Minerva Psychiatry
Associate Editor, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Affective Disorders (JAD) & JAD Reports

Dr. Paolo Brambilla graduated from the University of Milan, Milan, Italy in 1997, was a research fellow at the Mario
Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan in 1998, and specialized in Psychiatry at the University of Pavia,
Pavia, Italy in 2001. From 1999 to 2002 he had been a clinical research fellow first at the Western Psychiatric Institute
and Clinic (WPIC), University of Pittsburgh and afterwards at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas at San
Antonio. During his experience in the US Dr. Brambilla conducted MR studies combined to clinical neuropsychology
and psychopharmacology investigations applied to the field of mood disorders. In 2002 he was research fellow at the
University of Pavia and in 2003 at the University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Between 2002 and 2004 he had also been
research fellow at the IRCCS Scientific Institute “San Giovanni di Dio”, Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy. In 2005 he
completed his Ph.D. program at the University of Genova, Genova, Italy, by defending a thesis on the effects of lithium
in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of bipolar disorder patients and healthy controls. Since 2003 he is the scientific
coordinator of the Research Unit on Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology at the Section of Psychiatry of the University
of Verona. From 2004 to February 2015 Dr. Brambilla has been Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Udine, Udine, Italy, where he founded the Inter-University Center for Behavioural Neurosciences (ICBN) a unique
research consortium between the University of Udine and the University of Verona, Italy. Between 2005 and February
2015 he has been attending psychiatrist at the University Hospital of Udine and child and adolescent psychiatrist
consultant at the Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation Institute “La Nostra Famiglia” Association, Udine. Since 2005 he is the
coordinator of developmental psychopathology studies at the IRCCS Scientific and Clinical Institute “E. Medea”, Polo
FVG, Udine. He has been Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill between 2007-2009, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas at Houston since 2012. He became Associate Professor of
Psychiatry at the University of Milan, Milan, Italy, in 2015 and full professor in 2021. He got the position as attending
psychiatrist at the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan in 2015 and Director of the
Psychiatric Clinic in 2018. Dr. Brambilla from 2012 to 2017 has been member of the Scientific Boards of the “Imago 7”
Foundation, which manages the only MR scanner at ultra high field (7 Tesla) for human research present in Italy. Dr.
Brambilla is CoChair of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Neuroimaging Section and of the EPA Child and
AdolescenT Psychiatry Section, CoChair of European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Neuroimaging
Network and member of the cultural association “Loco&motiva” dedicated to the research, study, and education of
emotions. Over the last 20 years Dr. Brambilla has trained and supervised the scientific and clinical activities of dozens
of medical students, residents in psychiatry, research fellows, PhD students, post-doc researchers, and junior faculties
in the field of mental health, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and bioengineer. Furthermore, he accumulated
experience in business administration by leading rehabilitation, outpatient, and inpatient units and hospital psychiatric
departments as well as by managing consistent budgets for human resources in both clinical and research areas. He
has extensive experience in University teaching and is member of the Editorial Board of many scientific Journals. Since
2015 he is CoEditor-in-Chief of Journal of Affective Disorders (JAD); since 2019 he is Associate Editor of Psychiatry
Research: Neuroimaging and Associate Editor of Frontiers Aging in Psychiatry; since 2020 he is CoEditor-in-Chief of
JAD Reports and Editor-in-Chief of Minerva Psychiatry. Since 2020 he is Program Director of the Bachelor Degree in
Professional Educator and since October 2023 is Director of the School of Residency in Psychiatry at the University of
Milan, Milan, Italy. Since 2022 he is Councillor of the ECNP executive committee. Dr. Brambilla has been invited to
speak in plenary lectures or symposia by some of the most important national (SIP, SOPSI, SINPF, SIF, SIN, SINS,
SIRN, AINI, SISMEC, Italian Chapter ISMRM) and international congresses (SfN, WPA, WFSBP, SOBP, EPA, CINP,
ECNP, ISBD, IRPB, SIRS, HBM, IEEE_EMBC, ISTS) in neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology and neurosciences.
Finally, he is the recipient of several international scientific honors, of national and international grants, and is author or
co-author of more than 400 original papers published in International peer-reviewed Journals, being first, senior, and/or
corresponding author in most of them. His current lifetime h-index is 59 as calculated by Scopus, 73 by Google
Scholar, 70 by Web of Science Core Collection, 66 by ResearchGate, and 81 by Research.com. He is mentioned
amongst the most cited scientists for the field of bipolar disorders by Web of Science, for the filed of Neurosciences &
Psychology by Top Italian scientists and based on standardised scientific citation indicators by Ioannidis et al. (PLOS
Biology 18(10): e3000918, 2020). He also bears the Italian National Habilitation for Full Professor of Child and
Adolescent NeuroPsychiatry. His main areas of expertises are: Mood and Anxiety disorders, Schizophrenia, Psychosis,
Autism, Developmental Psychopathology, Neuroimaging, Neuropsychology, Neuroimmunology, Machine Learning. He
is Child and Adult Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, and Psychoanalyst in training.