Rate My Professor Gemma Modinos

Gemma Modinos is Professor of Neuroscience & Mental Health in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. She obtained a BSc in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2003, an MSc in Applied Neurosciences from the University of Barcelona in 2005, and a PhD in Neuroscience (Cum Laude) from the University of Groningen in 2010. After completing her doctorate, she pursued postdoctoral research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Her career progression includes the King’s Prize Fellowship in 2016 and the Wellcome Trust & Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, which enabled her to establish the Modinos Lab. As Principal Investigator of Modinos Lab, she is also Co-Chair of the ENIGMA Schizotypy working group—the largest global collaborative network for neuroimaging research in schizotypy—and Group Leader at the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Her research employs multimodal neuroimaging techniques in humans and animal models to investigate neural mechanisms of emotional processing and their involvement in the development of psychotic symptoms and disorders such as schizophrenia, including pharmacological imaging to explore therapeutic strategies.

Modinos has received numerous awards, including the NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2013), King’s Prize Fellowship (2016), first female recipient of the SIRS Rising Star Award (2019), British Association of Psychopharmacology Senior Non-Clinical Award (2020), SIRS Research Excellence Award (2023), and election to Academia Europaea (2024). She chaired the Young Academy of Europe from 2020 to 2022 and participated in the Academy of Medical Sciences’ SUSTAIN program. Key publications include “Neuroanatomy of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia: a quantitative meta-analysis of voxel-based morphometry studies” (Cortex, 2013), “Neuroimaging auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: from neuroanatomy to neurochemistry and beyond” (Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2012), “Individual differences in dispositional mindfulness and brain activity involved in reappraisal of emotion” (Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2010), and “ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries” (Translational Psychiatry, 2020). She serves as Editor of Schizophrenia Research, Editorial Board Member of Neuropsychopharmacology, and module lead for Biological Psychiatry in the MSc Psychiatric Research program.