Mario Alvarez-jimenez PhD, D.Clin.Psy

Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez is Director, Orygen Digital. Mario has pioneered the use of online social media to foster long-term recovery in youth mental health. His research focus is on relapse prevention and psychosocial recovery in youth mental health through online social media, mobile-based interventions and new models of positive psychotherapy. Mario has been extensively published in a range of Australian and international publications and has obtained a number of highly competitive research grants. In 2012, he was awarded the CR Roper Fellowship, a prestigious three-year fellowship awarded by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne, as well as the International Early Psychosis Association Young Investigator Award.