Rate My Professor Argyris Stringaris

Argyris Stringaris is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University College London (UCL), serving as Chair in the Department of Mental Health Neuroscience within the Faculty of Brain Sciences since January 2022. He also holds a professorship in Psychiatry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Prior to this, he was Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in the Emotion and Development Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), until 2022. Stringaris qualified with an MD, earned his PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and holds Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych). His clinical training was at the Maudsley Hospital, followed by postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich and NIMH.

Stringaris co-leads the Anxiety, Self-Image and Mood (AIM) Lab at UCL with Georgina Krebs, investigating the phenomenology, neuro-computational mechanisms, epidemiology, and behavioral genetics of emotional disorders in young people, including depression, body dysmorphic disorder, and social anxiety disorder. The lab informs clinical practice via the AIM Clinic, an NHS service. He is Pro-Vice-Provost for UCL's Mental Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge alongside Essi Viding. His research pioneered the study of irritability as a transdiagnostic marker in youth psychopathology. Key publications include the book 'Disruptive Mood: Irritability in Children and Adolescents' (2015), 'The Affective Reactivity Index: a concise irritability scale for clinical and research settings' (2012, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry), and 'Adolescent irritability: phenotypic associations and genetic links with depressed mood' (2011, American Journal of Psychiatry). He received the NIMH Intramural Research Program Outstanding Mentor Award. Stringaris's contributions have advanced personalized treatments for adolescent mental health through integrated clinical-neuroscientific approaches.