Advisory Board and Editors Psychiatry & Psychology
Ziad Kronfol
Ziad Kronfol, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychiatry Clerkship Director at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar. He previously was Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychoneuroimmunology Program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Kronfol is past Vice-President of the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and member of the section on education in the World Psychiatric Association.
Giuseppe Lanza
Dr. Giuseppe Lanza was born in Catania (Italy) in 1982. He currently works as a Senior Academic Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Catania (Italy). After graduation with honours in Medicine, he trained at the School of Neurology and got the international PhD at the same University. As visiting Clinical Research Fellow, he further trained at the Department of Neuroscience and Clinical Neurophysiology of the Newcastle University (UK). In 2013 he was selected for a Scientific Fellowship promoted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). From 2013 to October 2018, he worked as a Consultant Neurologist at the “Oasi Research Institute–IRCCS” in Troina (Italy), which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization (WHO), and where now he currently holds the position of Chief of the Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit. From 2015 to October 2018, he taught Neurology at the University of Enna (Italy). He has authored more than 150 publications in internationally-indexed peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences or Meetings, and he currently serves as Editor and invited Reviewer of several international Journals. More recently, he has obtained the Master of Science in Clinical Research and the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor (procedure for the Italian University Professor recruiting, based on criteria of scientific qualification).
Keith R Laws
Keith Laws is Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. He completed a PhD at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching and various academic organisations including the Experimental Psychology Society.
Liana S Leach
I am a psychiatric epidemiologist, and my research primarily investigates the impact of work and parenting transitions on mental health. I am currently a Research Fellow at the Research School of Population Health, at The Australian National University.
Jorge Leite
Prof. Doctor António Jorge da Costa Leite is Associate Professor within the Department of Psychology and Education at the Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal.
He is also Director of the Portucalense Institute for Human Development, and the PhD program in Clinical Psychology and Counselling.
Feng Liu
Feng Liu received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and went on to work in the Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, China. Now he is an associate professor and his current research interests include Brain and Cognition, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Imaging Genetic and Multivariate Pattern Analysis.
Current research focuses on investigating the impact of the environmental factors (e.g., green space, PM 2.5, etc) on human brain measured by magnetic resonance imaging.
Homepage: https://fengliu001.github.io/
Marco Tullio Liuzza
2024 -now: Associate Professor of Psychometrics, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padua.
2019 - 2024: Associate Professor in Psychometrics and Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro.
2017 - 2019: Assistant Professor in Psychometrics and Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro.
2016: Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE.
2013: Postdoc, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (SCNL), Department of Psychology, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Neuroimaging Lab, IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.
2012: Postdoc
Laboratory of Social Neuroscience, IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.
Johanna Löchner
Prof. Johanna Loechner is a Junior Professor for Mobile Assessment and Telepsychotherapy at the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Tübingen
Prof. Loechner's research projects focus on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation using digital technologies in children, adolescents and parents with mental disorders.
Frank JH Lu
Frank J.H. Lu PhD. is Professor of the Graduate Institute of Sport Coaching Science, Chinese Culture University. Professor Lu completed his doctoral degree in 1998 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). He is the former president of the Society for Sport and Exercise Psychology of Taiwan (SSEPT) from 2005 to 2007, and an active member in the international sport psychology bodies, such as Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP), North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC) and Asian South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology (ASPASP). Frank enjoys teaching and instructing graduate students in sport and exercise psychology. His major research interest in sport psychology is student athletes’ life stress, PST interventions, and psychological well-being. As to exercise psychology he focuses on physical self and quality of life.
Michael T Lynskey
Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine
Suk Ling Ma
Assistant Professor at Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research interests included genetics of Alzheimer's disease and other psychiatric disorders.
Stephen L Macknik
Stephen L. Macknik trained as a postdoc with Zachary Mainen at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and David Hubel at Harvard Medical School. He has a BA in Psychobiology, Biology and Psychology from the Univ of California, Santa Cruz, and a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard Univ, with Margaret Livingstone. His research seeks to understand the neural underpinnings of visual awareness and attention, and the neural consequences of cerebral blood flow in the healthy brain and in neurological disorders.