Gemma Modinos#
| Membership Number: | 6914 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://modinoslab.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7870-066X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Professor of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- 2024 - present Elected Executive Board Member of the Schizophrenia International Research Society
- 2021 - 2024 Reader in Neuroscience & Mental Health, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- 2018 - present Group Leader, MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London
- 2022 - 2023 Outgoing Chair of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2017 - 2023 Wellcome Trust & The Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow (and Senior Lecturer 2017-2021; and Reader 2021-2023), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- 2020 - 2022 Chair of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2017 - 2023 Visiting Scholar, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
- 2016 - 2017 King’s Prize Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- 2014 - 2016 Research Programme Coordinator (0.5 FTE; EC FP7 project “PSYSCAN"), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- 2012 - 2016 Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (and Lecturer 2013-2016), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London (0.5 FTE between 2014-2016)
- 2010 - 2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- 2003 - 2007 Clinical Neuropsychologist, Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociènces Aplicades, Barcelona, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Multimodal neuroimaging
- Cross-species neuroimaging
- Psychosis
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Social neuroscience
- Schizotypy
- Schizophrenia
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 2023 Research Excellence Award, Schizophrenia International Research Society
- 2020 Senior Non-Clinical Psychopharmacology Award, British Association of Psychopharmacology
- 2019 Rising Star Award, Schizophrenia International Research Society
- 2019 Nominated for USERN Prize (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network), for scientists or researchers less than 40 years of age operating in the top 1% of their field
- 2019 Elected member of SUSTAIN Women in Leadership programme, UK Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2019 Elected Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
- 2017 Future Leader, Science and Technology in Society Forum, Kyoto, Japan (nominated by The Royal Society)
- 2017 Luc Ciompi Award, Swiss Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Switzerland
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2016 Wellcome Trust & The Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship (equivalent to ERC Starting Grant)
- 2016 King’s Prize Fellowship, King's College London
- 2014 Young Investigator Award, International Early Psychosis Association
- 2013 NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
- 2010 Young Investigator Award, Schizophrenia International Research Society
