Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris

Nikolaos Koutsouleris is Professor of Precision Psychiatry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität as well as Professor at King's College London.

He is the coordinator of the EU-FP7-funded project PRONIA ("Personalised Prognostic Tools for Early Psychosis Management"; http://www.proniapredictors.eu/pronia/index.html), consultant and head of the Centre for Adolescent Psychiatry and Adolescent Psychiatry in Transition and the Section for Precision Psychiatry at LMU as well as Fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich. He also leads the Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Group at the Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London.

Nikolaos Koutsouleris studied medicine at LMU between 1996 and 2003 as a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation. He took up his first medical and academic appointment in 2004 at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, where he finished his doctorate thesis in 2005. Since 2008, he has advanced the use of multivariate pattern recognition methods for the identification and validation of diagnostic and prognostic prediction models in at-risk and early stages of affective and non-affective psychoses. His work was honoured with several national and international awards and led so far to over 196 peer-reviewed, highly cited papers. In addition, he strived to make robust machine-learning methods available to researchers in the clinical neurosciences in order to improve the methodological rigour of this new research direction based on the proper use of validation and model sharing approaches. These efforts have the lead to the publication of the open-source NeuroMiner machine learning platform available at http://www.proniapredictors.eu/neurominer/index.html.

Nikolaos Koutsouleris is Speaker of the CAS Research Group Tools for Transnational Neuropsychiatric Research.