Benedetti Francesco Professore associatoPsychologyMED/25 - Psichiatria

Since 2018          Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano

2017                      Italian National Scientific Qualification for Full Professor of Psychiatry

2014                     Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Since 2009          Director of the Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology Unit, Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano

2005                      Diplomate in Psychiatry, summa cum laude, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele

2003 –2018       Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine & School of Psychology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele.

Since 2002          Area Coordinator (scientific research – psychiatric branch), Ospedale San Raffaele

1996 – 2001        Staff Psychiatrist, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano

1995                     Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, summa cum laude, University of Milano

1993 – 1994        Italian Army (military obligation), Medical Lieutenant, Arma dei Carabinieri

1992 – 1993        Post-doctoral fellow, Medical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Milan

1991                     M.D. degree, summa cum laude, University of Modena

1985 – 1991        Studies in Medicine, University of Modena. Pre-doctoral research fellow, Institute of Human Physiology

 

Research fields

My research focus is in the field of translational and reverse-translational research in psychiatry and clinical psychobiology, with the following major areas:

– Brain imaging of psychopathology, psychiatric diseases, and therapeutics

– Psychiatric genetics, with a particular enphasis on imaging genetics

– Chronobiology and chronotherapeutics

– Neurobiology of mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders

– Developmental clinical psychobiology (consequences of early adverse experience, interactions of stress and dispositional factors)

– Neuroinflammation in psychiatric conditions