PRESENT AFFILIATION AND POSITION: Professor of Psychiatry, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli; Director of the School of Specialization in Psychiatry of the same University; Head of the Psychotherapy Unit of the University Hospital. TRAINING: MD at the First Medical School of the University of Naples; PhD in Neuroscience at the same University; Specialization in Psychiatry at the same University. CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY: Biological correlates of negative symptoms domains in schizophrenia; Cognitive dysfunctions in people with severe mental illnesses; Cognitive remediation in schizophrenia; Factors influencing schizophrenia real-life functioning. MEMBERSHIPS: Co-Chair of the Psychoneurobiology Section of the World Psychiatric Association; Secretary of the Schizophrenia Section of the European Psychiatric Association; Past-President of the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society; Member of the ECNP Schizophrenia Network. EDITORIAL ACTIVITY: Associate Editor of the following journals: BMC Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry-Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rehabilitation section, Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, Brain Topography.