Andreas Meyer-lindenberg MD, PhD, MSc

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg is Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, Chairman of its Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, and Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Prof. Meyer-Lindenberg received his M.D. from the University of Bonn, a Ph.D. (Habilitation) from the University of Giessen, and a M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Hagen, all in Germany. He spent 10 years at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., first as a visiting associate, then staff clinician, then investigator. Since 2007, he is Director of Germany?s Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Chairman of its Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, and chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg.

Among others, Prof. Meyer?Lindenberg was awarded the ACNP Elkes Award, the Bennett Award of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, and the Nature Medicine Prize for Translational Neuroscience. He is a 2009 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters for journals such as Science, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Medicine, and PNAS.