Alberto Fernandez-Teruel

He received the Psychology degree in 1985 and a PhD in Psychology in 1989, both from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was working as a predoctoral (PhD) fellow in 1987 at the “Istituto Biologico Policattedra” (University of Cagliari, Italy), with professors MG. Corda, O. Giorgi and G. Biggio, as postdoctoral fellow at the “Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale ‘Bernardo Loddo’” (University of Cagliari, Italy) in 1991, and as a visiting professor at the ETH-Zentrum (Zürich, Switzerland) in 1990 and 1994. He obtained a permanent position as Associate Professor of Psychopharmacology and Psychobiology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain; 1996-1998), after which he obtained a permanent position as Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB, Spain; 1998 to the present). Within this Department he is Coordinator of the Animal Research Laboratory and the “Animal and human models of mental disorders” research group (SGR). He has published over 125 peer-reviewed international scientific papers and over 30 spanish (non international) articles and book chapters, as well as 6 academic books. He has been awarded, among others, with the “‘Martí i Julià’ award for research in Psychology and Psychiatry” (“Institut d’Estudis Catalans”) in 1988, the “1992 ‘Ciutat the Barcelona Science Award’”, and the “ICREA-Academia 2013” (ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) award. He has been Partner Principal Investigator within two European research projects involving over 15 european (and USA) laboratories (the EURATools -2006-2010- and EURATRANS -2010-1014- projects).