Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience; Vice President for Research and Innovation, Principal Investigator in the APC Microbiome Ireland Institute, University College Cork
Behavioural neuroscientist whose research is focused on the neurobiology of stress-related disorders and the mechanisms underlying microbiome-brain interactions across the lifespan
He is a Senior Editor of Neuropharmacology and of Neurobiology of Stress and is on the editorial board of a further 10 journals
He has co-edited four books and is co-author of the bestselling “The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection”
He has received numerous awards including from numerous societies, including the University of Utrecht Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Research in 2013, UCC Research Communicator of the Year 2017, and an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2018
He received the Datta Prize from FASEB in 2022 and has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list in 2014 and from 2017 to the present
He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2017
He was a TEDMED speaker in 2014, TEDx Speaker in 2017 and is a Past-President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society
He has published over 650 peer-reviewed articles and has a H-index of 162 (Google Scholar)
