Carl Ernst studies human behaviour and mood by identifying genes that may be involved in mental disorders.

Eduardo Chachamovich’s work focuses mainly on social and clinical determinants of mental health in Aboriginal populations.

Antoine Adamantidis, PhD, is interested in the underlying neural mechanism for wakefulness or vigilance states.

Cecilia Flores' work focuses on the dysfunction of the dopaminergic system, a brain system important in reward, motor, and cognitive functions.

Norbert Schmitz is involved in biostatistics, psychiatric epidemiology and psychometrics.  

Suzanne King is investigating  risk factors for schizophrenia, such as prenatal stress, obstetric complications, and cannabis use.

Gustavo Turecki investigates the neurobiology of suicide, focusing on the role of genetic risk factors.

Howard Steiger contributed to the advancement of knowledge regarding causal mechanisms and clinical management of eating disorders.

Duncan Pedersen studies how societies impact the mental health of their citizens. His work focuses on Latin America.

Eric Latimer, PhD, is a health economist and looks for ways to improve the services to people with severe forms of mental illness.