What is the purpose of the network?
- To link Imperial College academics working in potentially synergistic areas, providing opportunities of discourse and collaboration to identify funding opportunities, successfully bid for research funding, drive policy and guideline change, and further develop the mental health agenda.
- To share knowledge and support new ideas and development opportunities for Imperial early career researchers and students through an established platform
- To leverage connections with external mental health experts to enhance the learning environment and profile of mental health research at Imperial both internally and externally.
Why mental health?
Mental health has become a strategic priority for Imperial College as substantial new research funding begins to redress years of relative underfunding. Mental Health problems represent the leading cause of disability worldwide.
One in four people worldwide will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives, meaning around 450 million people currently suffering worldwide. As such mental health has become a major priority for policy and research over the past decade or so.
COVID-19 has brought this need into focus, having a detrimental impact on people's mental health and predicted a problem for years to come. Specific groups such as front line key workers and people of colour are at higher mental as well as physical risk. It is now opportune and timely to exploit the potential that Imperial College can bring to mental health research.
Who is the network for?
The network is for anyone with an interest, experience or ongoing research in mental health. It is a place to connect, collaborate, network and find out about Imperial wide work in mental health.
We hope that this website helps you to identify people, research interests and research groups, job and studentship opportunities, ongoing events and focused news items related to mental health within Imperial. - cross-faculty collaborations
Imperial departments involved in the network:
Our team members
Professor Paul Aylin
Professor Paul Aylin
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Mauricio Barahona
Mauricio Barahona
Director of Research, Chair in Biomathematics
Thomas Barnes
Thomas Barnes
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Doctor Weston Baxter
Doctor Weston Baxter
Senior Lecturer
Doctor Raghav Bhargava
Doctor Raghav Bhargava
Martyn Boutelle
Martyn Boutelle
Associate Provost (Estates Planning)
Doctor Victoria Burmester
Doctor Victoria Burmester
Research Associate
Doctor Jonathan Clarke
Doctor Jonathan Clarke
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor Rafael Calvo
Professor Rafael Calvo
Chair in Engineering Design
Professor Victoria Cornelius
Professor Victoria Cornelius
Professor in Medical Statistics and Trials Methodology
Professor Mike Crawford
Professor Mike Crawford
Professor of Mental Health Research
Doctor Lindsay Dewa
Doctor Lindsay Dewa
Advanced Research Fellow
Doctor Laure de Preux
Doctor Laure de Preux
Assistant Professor
Professor Abbas Edalat
Professor Abbas Edalat
Professor in Computer Science & Maths
Doctor Martina Di Simplicio
Doctor Martina Di Simplicio
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry
Doctor David Erritzoe
Doctor David Erritzoe
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry
Jack Elkes
Jack Elkes
NIHR Doctoral Fellow
Professor Aldo Faisal
Professor Aldo Faisal
Professor of AI & Neuroscience
Gianluca Fontana
Gianluca Fontana
Director of Operations and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Centre for Health Policy
Giorgio Gilestro
Giorgio Gilestro
Senior Lecturer
Professor Elena Garralda Hualde
Professor Elena Garralda Hualde
Emeritus Professor
Doctor Tony Goldstone
Doctor Tony Goldstone
Reader in Psycho Neuro Endocrinology
Doctor Julia Gledhill
Doctor Julia Gledhill
Doctor Nir Grossman
Doctor Nir Grossman
Senior Lecturer
Our team members
Doctor Anita Hall
Doctor Anita Hall
Senior Teaching Fellow
Doctor Dougal Hargreaves
Doctor Dougal Hargreaves
Reader in Paediatrics and Population Health
Doctor Christopher James Harvey
Doctor Christopher James Harvey
Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow - Psychology
Doctor Matthew Hodes
Doctor Matthew Hodes
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Professor Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
Professor Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
Chair in Lifecourse Epidemiology
Doctor Balasundaram Kadirvelu
Doctor Balasundaram Kadirvelu
Professor Roger Kneebone
Professor Roger Kneebone
Professor of Surgical Education and Engagement Science
Doctor Anthony Laverty
Doctor Anthony Laverty
Senior Lecturer
Doctor Emma Lawrence
Doctor Emma Lawrence
Lead Policy Fellow for Mental Health
Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes
Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes
Chair in Addiction Biology
Pofessor Danilo Mandic
Pofessor Danilo Mandic
Professor of Machine Intelligence
Doctor Anthea Monod
Doctor Anthea Monod
Lecturer in Biomathematics
Doctor Shevanthi Nayagam
Doctor Shevanthi Nayagam
Clinical Fellow
Professor Dasha Nicholls
Professor Dasha Nicholls
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatristry
Professor David Nutt
Professor David Nutt
Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences
Doctor Louise Paterson
Doctor Louise Paterson
Advanced Research Fellow
Professor Carol Propper
Professor Carol Propper
Chair of Economics
Professor Sonia Saxena
Professor Sonia Saxena
Professor of Primary Care
Professor Bjoern Schuller
Professor Bjoern Schuller
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Professor Simon Shultz
Professor Simon Shultz
Professor of Neurotechnology
Professor Ovidiu Serban
Professor Ovidiu Serban
Research Fellow in Intelligent Data Processing and Curation
Professor Mark Thursz
Professor Mark Thursz
Head of Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
Christopher Timmermann-Slater
Christopher Timmermann-Slater
Research Fellow
Professor Mireille Toledano
Professor Mireille Toledano
Director of the Mohn Centre
Mental Health Research Network Members
Professor Peter Tyrer
Professor Peter Tyrer
Emeritus Professor in Community Psychiatry
Professor Tommaso Valletti
Professor Tommaso Valletti
Professor of Economics
Professor Helen Ward
Professor Helen Ward
Professor of Public Health
Professor Bill Wisden
Professor Bill Wisden
Chair in Molecular Neuroscience
Doctor Cornelius Ani
Doctor Cornelius Ani
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Child Adolescent Psychiarty
Professor Hamed Haddadi
Professor Hamed Haddadi
Professor of Human-Centred Systems
General enquiries
For any queries related to the Network, please email: iclmhrnetwork@imperial.ac.uk