Gunter Schumann#
| Membership Number: | 7046 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://psychiatrie-psychotherapie.charite.de/en/research/population_neuroscience/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
- 2021 Director PONS Centre, Charite University Medicine Berlin
- 2021 Distinguished Professor Fudan University, Shanghai
- 2011 Chair in Biological Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College, London Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, SLaM-NHS Foundation Trust
- 2005 Chair in Addiction Biology, IoPPN, King’s College, London. Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist, SLaM-NHS Foundation Trust
- 2000 Consultant Psychiatrist; Head, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Central Institute for Mental Health, University of Heidelberg
- 1995 Resident and Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry, UMC Freiburg
- 1993 Resident, Dept. of Internal Medicine (Hematology/Oncology) and Research Fellow, Dept. of Mol. Hematology at the UMC Freiburg
- 1991 Research Fellow in Pathology, Harvard Medical School at the Dana-Farber-Cancer-Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological psychiatry
- Population neuroscience
- Neuroimaging
- Clinical neuroscience
- Global mental health
- Big data science
- Genomics and molecular neurobiology
- Environmental influences on brain and behaviour
- Biological psychiatry
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Chair, Nature Commission on Environment, Brain and Mental Health
- 2024 Member, European Academy of Science
- 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Prize
- 2020 National Thousand Talent Award
- 2019 Visiting Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
- 2018 Honorary Professor, Tianjin Medical University
- 2017 Visiting Distinguished Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai
- 2016 ERC European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2008 National Clinical Excellence Award (Bronze)
- 2007 Royal Society Symposium “Neurobiology of addiction: New vistas”
- 2006 16th Okey Lecture: Identifying the neurobiol. mechanisms of addictive behaviour
- 2005 Wilhelm Feuerlein Research Award of the German Addiction Foundation
- 1999 Winter Conference on Brain Research (Fellowship Award)
- 1998 European College of Neuropharmacology (ECNP) (Project Award)
- 1993 German Society for Immunology (Young Investigator Award)
- 1992 German National Science Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)




