Professor Marc De Hert is a Clinical Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at the University Psychiatric Centre KU Leuven, Campus Kortenberg (Kortenberg, Belgium). Professor De Hert studied medicine at the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium) where he also qualified as a psychiatrist. He had formal training in different psychotherapeutic methods. He has a PhD in biomedical sciences (suicide in young patients with schizophrenia) from KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and is currently a PhD student in Law and Ethics at the University of Antwerp. He is involved in the training of paramedical professionals, psychiatric nurses, medical students and trainees in psychiatry. He is a Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at KU Leuven. His main research domains have been epidemiology, treatment and outcome of psychotic disorders. His current research projects involve long-term outcome studies, somatic comorbidities in people with severe mental illness, and the evaluation of metabolic and other adverse effects of antipsychotic medication.