Joaquim Radua
Dr. Radua, leader of the Imaging of Mood, Anxiety and Related Disorders (IMARD) link group at Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer link (IDIBAPS, Barcelona) and awarded with a Miguel Servet II contract, is a psychiatrist medical doctor, and statistician who earned his doctorate in biostatistics of brain imaging at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience link (IoPPN), King's College London.
He has led many multidisciplinary studies about mental disorders and has analyzed many clinical and neuroimaging datasets; these usually worldwide collaborations have led to >150 publications in Pubmed-indexed journals (~50% in the first decile). He has been included in the Highly Cited Researchers List link 2017, 2018, and 2019.
He has also developed several new meta-analytic and neuroimaging methods, among which SDM software must be highlighted for becoming a standard within the scientific community. His research is currently also focused on the clinical prediction (e.g. recurrence risk) based on available clinical and biological data to pave the way for evidence-based personalized medicine in mental health.
At the academic level, he teaches and coordinates several postgraduate courses in statistics and neuroimaging, is an associate editor of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Revista de Psiquiatria y Salud Mental, and other journals, and holds the presidency of the Spanish Neuroimaging Society.
He has mainly developed his work in London (IoPPN, King's College London, where he is an honorary researcher and keeps continued collaborations with Dr. Paolo Fusar-Poli), Stockholm (Karolinska Institutet, Sweeden, where he is also an honorary researcher and keeps continued collaborations with Prof. David Mataix-Cols), New Haven (Yale University, Connecticut, USA) and Barcelona (FIDMAG Research Foundation; and since 2018 IDIBAPS).
