Dan Rujescu#
| Membership Number: | 6032 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://generalpsychiatry.meduniwien.ac.at |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1432-313X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021, May Professor of Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- 2021, May Head of Department of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychothe rapy, Vienna (2012 - 2021) W3 Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg,Germany
- 2012 - 2021 Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (2009 - 2012) Head of Alzheimer Memory Centre, Geriatric Psychiatry Ward and Memory Clinic at LMU Munich, Germany (2008 - 2012) W2 Professor of Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU) Munich, Germany
- 2005 - 2010 Co-Director of the Genetics Research Centre
- 2004 - 2012 Section Head in the Department of Psychiatry at the LMU Munich, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Suicide
- Dementia
- Schizophrenia
- Genetics
- Psychiatry
- Molecular neurobiology
- Psychotherapy
Honours and Awards
- 2010 European BMS Prevention Award in Psychiatry 2010 2008 Dr. Paul Janssen Schizophrenia Research Award 2008 Kraepelin-Alzheimer Medal
- 2007 Kraepelin Research Award
- 2006 NARS AD: Independent Investigator Award (William & Gloria Paul Family Foundation) 1997-1998 Max Planck Society: research grant





