Seena Fazel is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science. He is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He holds honorary appointments at Oxford Health Foundation NHS Trust, where he works clinically as a prison psychiatrist. His current programme of research investigates risk factors for adverse outcomes in mental disorders, including using population-based registers. In addition, he has developed prognostic models for suicide and violence in people with severe mental illness using population registers. He is a co-investigator on the UK’s Violence Abuse and Mental Health Research Network (VAMHN).