Hans-Jürgen Möller, MD, worked from 1988 to 1994 as full Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Psychiatric Department at the University of Bonn (Germany) and from 1994 to 2012 as full Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Psychiatric Department at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (Germany), where he now is active as professor emeritus.

Professor Möller’s main scientific contributions include clinical and neurobiological research into psychiatry with focus on schizophrenia, affective disorders, and clinical psychopharmacology. Professor Möller has written and co-authored over 1300 scientific publications (he has currently 95 603 citations and his Hirsch Factor is 153) and several books. He was certified since 2014 every year by Thomson Reuters among the 1% of researches for most cited papers .

He was editor or co-editor of several German or English scientific journals like “Nervenarzt”, “Psychopharmakotherapie”, “European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience”, “World Journal of Biological Psychiatry” (which he founded) and is member of the editorial board of several psychiatric journals.

He was among others president of the World Federation of Society of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP), of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA),of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) and Chairman of the Section on Pharmacopsychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).

His scientific and academic merits were honoured in many ways , among others with several honorary doctor titles (Dr. h.c. mult.), the Jean Delay Prize of the World Psychiatric AssociationA (WPA), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) and the Arvid Carlsson Medal and the Pioneer of Psychopharmacology Award of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP).