Prof. Andreas Reif

Andreas Reif is a German Psychiatrist, who received his training at the University Hospital Würzburg, where he also did his residency and later on became Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. In 2014, he took over the position of the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Frankfurt, where he is also full professor of psychiatry. AR’s clinical and research interests encompass affective disorders (TRD, bipolar disorder, suicidality), aggression and adult ADHD; his research is translational in nature and revolves around the ideas of precision psychiatry, i.e. identifying the best therapy at the exact time for a given individual patient. He has published more than 675 original papers and reviews, also in the most prestigious journals such a the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet and Science, and has an h² index of 101. Collaborative research efforts where he has a leading role include the Collaborative Research Center on the Neurobiology of Aggression (TRR SFB 379) and the LOEWE Centre DYNAMIC, the latter focusing on conceptualizing mental disorders as a disturbance of dynamic networks on several levels from neurobiology to psychopathology. He is an internationally renowned speaker and active in several learned societies, especially the German Psychiatric Association (DGPPN), where he is an executive board member since 2017, as well as ECNP, where he is President Elect (Presidency 2025-2028). Also, he is involved in several clinical guidelines and outreach programs.