Rate My Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia

Antonio Verdejo-Garcia is Professor (Research) in the School of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University, a position he has held since joining the institution in 2012. Previously, he served as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor at the University of Granada in Spain. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Granada in 2006 and a Master's degree in Psychological and Biomedical Aspects of Health and Illness from the same university in 2002. His postdoctoral training in addiction neuroscience took place at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA; the University of Cambridge, UK; and the Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques in Barcelona, Spain.

An NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Verdejo-Garcia leads the Addiction and Impulsivity Research (AIR) Lab, which examines how addictive disorders alter brain function and goal-oriented behaviour, with a focus on impulsivity in substance use disorders, behavioural addictions, obesity, and eating disorders. His work investigates cognitive and neural mechanisms of executive control and decision-making, employing brain imaging, cognitive assessments, and digital technologies to develop novel interventions. He has authored or co-authored over 290 peer-reviewed articles, accumulating more than 17,000 citations. Key publications include the edited book Cognition & Addiction (Academic Press, 2020) and highly cited papers such as "Impulsivity as a vulnerability marker for substance-use disorders: review of findings from high-risk research, problem gamblers and genetic association studies" (2008, 1,965 citations), "Neuropsicología de las funciones ejecutivas" (2010, 794 citations), "What are the specific vs. generalized effects of drugs of abuse on neuropsychological performance?" (2011, 582 citations), and "A somatic marker theory of addiction" (2009, 507 citations). Verdejo-Garcia holds an Adjunct Honorary Appointment at Turning Point (Eastern Health), serves on the editorial boards of Addiction, PLoS One, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Current Addiction Reports, and Adicciones, and is Co-Chair of the Neuroscience Interest Group at the International Society of Addiction Medicine.