Eduard Vieta - Biography#

Eduard Vieta is Professor of Psychiatry and Chair at the University of Barcelona and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Hospital Clinic, where he also leads the Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Program in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Dr. Vieta is also the current Scientific Director of the Spanish Research Network on Mental Health (CIBERSAM). He has received the Aristotle award (2005), the Mogens Schou award (2007), the Strategic Research award of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry (2009), the Official College of Physicians award to Professional Excellence (2011), the Colvin Price on Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research by the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation (2012), the Clinical Neuroscience Lilly award by the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP 2014), the Simon Bolivar Award (American Psychiatric Association 2017), the Research Price of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP, 2017) and the Trueta Award (2021), and has been named twice best psychiatrist in Spain (Monitor sanitario, El Español), honorary member of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry, and Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Valencia. He has authored more than 1000 original articles, 500 book chapters and 50 books. His h index is 140 and has over 77,270 citations (Google Scholar), which makes him the most cited scientist worldwide in the field of bipolar disorder over the last 8 years and one of the world’s most influential scientific minds, according to Clarivate Analytics ranking (Highly Cited). His papers have over 600.000 downloads. Furthermore, he is Editor-in-Chief of European Neuropsychopharmacology and has served as invited professor at McLean Hospital and Harvard University and as neuroscience scientific advisor to the European Presidency.

Dr. Vieta is the most internationally known psychiatrist in Spain, where he has developed most of his career. His research can be qualified as outstanding from the scientific standpoint, but, furthermore, it has had an enormous impact on clinical practice, literally changing the way that people suffering from bipolar disorder are diagnosed, monitored, and treated. Despite their high prevalence and social burden, mental disorders are often neglected in terms of budget for research and recognition. For a full list of his scientific publications please go to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=vieta+e&sort=date or https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0548-0053