Professor Veena Kumari
Professor - Psychology

Membership and affiliation

 Current/Recent External Positions

• Panel Member for Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience Unit of Assessment, Research Excellence Framework Exercise 2021 (the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions)
• Member of the Scientific Council, Mental Health Research UK (the first UK charity dedicated to raising funds for research into mental illnesses, their causes and cures), 2021-2024
• Panel Member for Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Research Council of Norway. 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.
• President, The British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID), 2020-2023
• Chair of the Ethics Committee, Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) – 2021-22

Editor/ Editorial Board Positions (Selected)

• Specialty Co-Chief Editor
• Psychological Therapy & Psychosomatics, Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2022 -

Associate/Academic Editor

• Cortex. 2019 - present
• Brain and Cognition. 2020-present
• Schizophrenia Research and Treatment. 2010 - present
• Personality and Individual Differences. 2006- 2016
• Current Psychopharmacology. 2016 - 2020

Guest Editor

Special issues on ‘Neurobiological Investigations of Dimensionally Conceptualized Personality Pathology’. Journal of Personality Disorders. 2020

Volume Editor

• Electrophysiology and Psychophysiology in Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, Vol 21, 2014 (Editors; V Kumari, P Bob, N Boutros)

Editorial/Advisory Board Member

• European Psychiatry. 2019 ­– present
• Personality Neuroscience. 2019 – present
• Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 2006 - 2011
• Personality and Individual Differences. 2016 - 2018.
• Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 2009 - 2018
• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2011-2020

Membership of Professional Organizations

• British Psychological Society (BPS)
• British Psychopharmacology Association (BAP)
• The British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID) (founding member)
• Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP)
• The Society of Neuroscience (SFN)
• Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)

Reviewing for Journals and National and International Funding Bodies

Reviewer for a number of journals (including Behaviour and Brain Sciences, Archives of General Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Research, Brain, Behavioural Brain Research, Biological Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology , Psychophysiology, Journal of Psychophysiology, Psychopharmacology, Journal of Psychopharmacology, Behavioural Pharmacology, Personality and Individual Differences), and national (e.g. Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust) and international funding bodies (e.g. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, German Research Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, USA; Research Council of Norway).

Presentations at National and International Meetings

Over 150 presentations including invited talks and symposiums at Convention of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (US), International Schizophrenia Research Society Conference, Schizophrenia Winter Workshop, Meeting of the Association of European Psychiatry (AEP), Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, CINP (Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum) Congress, and Meeting of the Society of Psychophysiological Research.

 Recent Presentations - Select

• Invited Lecture. Neurobiology of Violence in Schizophrenia and Antisocial Personality Disorder: The Role of Childhood Abuse. 22nd Annual Conference of British Indian Psychiatric Association, 2nd-3rd June 2018.
• Invited Lecture. Nicotine Dependence in Schizophrenia: All Smoke? Substance Abuse Seminar. Yale University School of Medicine, 24th May 2017.
• Key Note, Targeting Abnormal Neural Circuits in Schizophrenia: From Molecules to Minds’ at the 5th Bonn Humboldt Award Winners‘ Forum “Frontiers in Neuroscience: Multi-Scale Analysis of the Nervous System – From Molecules to Circuits”, 8th Oct 2015, Bonn, Germany

 Member of the Program Committee -   8th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology (CBP 2019). http://cognitive-behavior.org/

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