Bernhard Baune
Speaker
University of Münster | Germany
Prof. Bernhard Baune holds a Professorial Chair of Psychiatry, is Head of the Department of Psychiatry, and is the Director of the Laboratory Division of Molecular Neurobiology of Mental Health, at the University of Münster, Münster, Germany since 2019. Previously, Prof. Baune has been the Cato Chair and Head of Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Baune is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP); he is a Professorial Fellow of both the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Baune is known for his extensive research program into the neurobiology of severe mental illness and treatment response, specifically in mood disorders, cognitive dysfunction and neuropsychiatry. He developed novel concepts and approaches in personalized psychiatry, molecular psychiatry, prediction and biomarker research, and pharmacological treatment research. He is also well known for key research achievements in the field of the immune-neurobiology of psychiatric disorders.
