About us
Celebrating our launch
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
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Professor Paul Aylin
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Mauricio Barahona
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Mauricio Barahona
Director of Research, Chair in Biomathematics
Thomas Barnes
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Thomas Barnes
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Doctor Weston Baxter
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Doctor Weston Baxter
Senior Lecturer
Doctor Raghav Bhargava
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Doctor Raghav Bhargava
Martyn Boutelle
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Martyn Boutelle
Associate Provost (Estates Planning)
Professor Rafael Calvo
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Professor Rafael Calvo
Chair in Engineering Design
Doctor Jonathan Clarke
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Doctor Jonathan Clarke
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor Victoria Cornelius
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Professor Victoria Cornelius
Professor in Medical Statistics and Trials Methodology
Professor Mike Crawford
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Professor Mike Crawford
Professor of Mental Health Research
Doctor Laure de Preux
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Doctor Laure de Preux
Assistant Professor
Doctor Lindsay Dewa
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Doctor Lindsay Dewa
Advanced Research Fellow
Doctor Martina Di Simplicio
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Doctor Martina Di Simplicio
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry
Professor Abbas Edalat
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Professor Abbas Edalat
Professor in Computer Science & Maths
Jack Elkes
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Jack Elkes
NIHR Doctoral Fellow
Doctor David Erritzoe
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Doctor David Erritzoe
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry
Professor Aldo Faisal
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Professor Aldo Faisal
Professor of AI & Neuroscience
Gianluca Fontana
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Gianluca Fontana
Director of Operations and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Centre for Health Policy
Professor Elena Garralda Hualde
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Professor Elena Garralda Hualde
Emeritus Professor
Giorgio Gilestro
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Giorgio Gilestro
Senior Lecturer
Doctor Julia Gledhill
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Doctor Julia Gledhill
Doctor Tony Goldstone
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Doctor Tony Goldstone
Reader in Psycho Neuro Endocrinology
Doctor Nir Grossman
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Doctor Nir Grossman
Senior Lecturer
Professor Hamed Haddadi
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Professor Hamed Haddadi
Professor of Human-Centred Systems
Our team members
Doctor Anita Hall
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Doctor Anita Hall
Senior Teaching Fellow
Doctor Dougal Hargreaves
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Doctor Dougal Hargreaves
Reader in Paediatrics and Population Health
Doctor Christopher James Harvey
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Doctor Christopher James Harvey
Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow - Psychology
Doctor Matthew Hodes
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Doctor Matthew Hodes
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Professor Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
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Professor Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
Chair in Lifecourse Epidemiology
Doctor Balasundaram Kadirvelu
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Doctor Balasundaram Kadirvelu
Professor Roger Kneebone
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Professor Roger Kneebone
Professor of Surgical Education and Engagement Science
Doctor Anthony Laverty
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Doctor Anthony Laverty
Senior Lecturer
Doctor Emma Lawrence
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Doctor Emma Lawrence
Lead Policy Fellow for Mental Health
Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes
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Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes
Chair in Addiction Biology
Pofessor Danilo Mandic
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Pofessor Danilo Mandic
Professor of Machine Intelligence
Doctor Anthea Monod
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Doctor Anthea Monod
Lecturer in Biomathematics
Doctor Shevanthi Nayagam
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Doctor Shevanthi Nayagam
Clinical Fellow
Professor Dasha Nicholls
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Professor Dasha Nicholls
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatristry
Professor David Nutt
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Professor David Nutt
Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences
Doctor Louise Paterson
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Doctor Louise Paterson
Advanced Research Fellow
Professor Carol Propper
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Professor Carol Propper
Chair of Economics
Professor Sonia Saxena
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Professor Sonia Saxena
Professor of Primary Care
Professor Bjoern Schuller
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Professor Bjoern Schuller
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Professor Simon Shultz
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Professor Simon Shultz
Professor of Neurotechnology
Professor Ovidiu Serban
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Professor Ovidiu Serban
Research Fellow in Intelligent Data Processing and Curation
Professor Mark Thursz
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Professor Mark Thursz
Head of Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
Christopher Timmermann-Slater
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Christopher Timmermann-Slater
Research Fellow
Professor Mireille Toledano
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Professor Mireille Toledano
Director of the Mohn Centre