Jiri Horacek

Jiří Horáček (excellent researcher, RWP3 leader). Prof. Horáček is Head of Centre of Advanced studies of Brain and Consciousness and Chairman of Dept. of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague. He has been actively involved in 40 scientific research projects. His research activities involve the use of brain imaging (PET, fMRI and qEEG) in the fields of schizophrenia, depression and OCD, psychiatric genetics and the animal modelling of mental disorders. He has received several national and international psychiatric awards from the International Pharmaco-EEG Society (Werner Hermann Memorial Award), the Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society and ECNS-ISNIP.  In his productive career he has been awarded the Senior Research Fellow of the Bedfordshire CMHR in association with the University of Cambridge. He acted also as the President of the Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society.