Honorary Fellow appointed Regius Professor of Psychiatry
Downing Honorary Fellow Professor Ed Bullmore has been appointed as the Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London. He will be joining the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience in June 2025.
Regius Professorships are prestigious academic positions in British universities. Created by royal charter and approved by the monarch, they are rare and historically significant. The Regius Professorship in Psychiatry was awarded to King’s College London in 2013. It is bestowed to an esteemed professor, who as well as being a pioneering researcher also demonstrates outstanding teaching and leadership within the field.
Professor Bullmore’s research mainly involves the application of brain imaging to psychiatry, and he has introduced an original approach to the analysis of human brain anatomy, involving graph theory and its application to small world networks. This has had an enormous impact on the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry, especially in relation to understanding the biological basis of schizophrenia and depression.
He has been a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge since 1999. He was Head of the Department of Psychiatry from 2014 to 2021 and is currently Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine and a non-executive Director of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. He was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Downing College in 2023.
Published 11 February 2025