Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and director of the 3^rd Department of Psychiatry at AHEPA University Hospital, in Thessaloniki, Greece

He is currently, zonal 8 representative (South Europe) in the Board of the World Psychiatric Association, National Representative for Mental Health in the World Health Organization, director of the WHO Collaborating Center in AUTh and Vice-President of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association. He chairs the Mental Health Section of the Institute of Scientific Research of the Greek Medical Association. For the years 2020-1 he served as director of Cochrane Greece

Dr. Fountoulakis’ areas of clinical and research interest are reflected in the topics that he teaches: general psychiatry, biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, mood disorders, schizophrenia and personality disorders. He has coauthored more than 400 papers and more than 300 of them are published in international journals such as the LANCET, BMJ, Am J Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Affective Disorders, Schizophrenia Research, Psychiatry Research, Bipolar Disorders, and the Annals of General Psychiatry among others, around 20,000 citations and h=72 (Publish or Perish).

During the years 2016-8 he was ranked by expertscape.com within the top 25 world experts concerning Bipolar disorder (0.068%) and among the top 50 concerning suicidality (0.097%).  Since 2024 he was ranked in the top 0.5% concerning both year and whole career among all scientists of all scientific fields according to the Stanford ranking of all scientists of all disciplines.

He has authored or co-authored a number of chapters in books. He has authored the books ‘Bipolar disorders: An Evidence-Based Guide to Manic Depression’ (Springer 2015), ‘Philosophical and historical roots and the current face of Psychiatry’ (Springer 2022) and ‘The Human connectome: how the brain works (Springer 2022). He has co-edited the WPA book ‘Advances in Psychiatry vol 3’ (Springer 2018) and the book ‘Psychobiology of behavior’ (Springer 2019).

Dr. Fountoulakis served for 20 years as Editor of Annals of General Psychiatry (IF=2.5). Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (IF=2.5), and Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (IF=3.7), while in the past he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of General Psychiatry, field editor of CNS Spectrums, as Section Editor of Current Opinion in Psychiatry as well as guest editor in other international journals.

He has received a number of national and international research awards, including the 2012 Kraepelin-Alzheimer medal of the University of Munich, the 2015 Excellence in Education Award of the WFSBP, and the award by the ECNP for the year 2024 for the paper with the highest number of citations during the last two years in the European Neuropsychopharmacology. Since 2014 he is honorary member of the WPA.