Hans-Jürgen Möller, Germany
Monday, 4 June 2012, 09.00 – 09.45 h
Schizophrenia: Course, causes and developments in drug treatment
Hans-Jürgen Möller has been working in the field of psychiatry for 30 years. After obtaining his Doctor of Medical Science in 1972 from the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg, Germany, he then specialised in psychiatry and postgraduate training at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich. Professor Möller completed a postdoctoral thesis (habilitation) in psychiatry in 1979. From 1980 to 1988 he was professor of psychiatry at Munich Technical University, and from 1988 to 1994 full professor of psychiatry and chairman of the Psychiatric Department at the University Bonn, Bonn, Germany. He is currently full professor of psychiatry and chairman of the Psychiatric Department at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.
Professor Möller’s main scientific contributions include clinical and neurobiological research into psychiatry, schizophrenia and depression and clinical psychopharmacology. He has been a member of the executive committees of several national and international psychiatric societies. He is the past president of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA). He serves as chairman of the Section on Pharmacopsychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). For four years he has been a member of the executive committee of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP), where he is now President. From 1997 to 2001 he was president of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP), where he is now honorary president.
In addition to authoring and co-authoring over 1100 publications such as original articles, international papers and several books (Hirsch-Factor 56), he has acted as chief editor of The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry from 2000 to 2009. He is main editor of European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, and editor of two major German psychiatric journals, Nervenarzt and Psychopharmakotherapie. He holds positions on the editorial boards of numerous national and international psychiatric journals.
In 2008, Professor Möller was awarded the prestigious Jean Delay Prize from the World Psychiatric Association. In 2009, he was awarded the honorary doctorate by the University Victor Babes of Timisoara?/?Hungary, the WFSBP Lifetime Achievement Award and the Aristotle Medal by the University of Thessaloniki


