Guillermo
Lahera Forteza

Guillermo Lahera Forteza is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Alcalá, accredited as Full Professor by ANECA since May 2024, and Head of the Psychiatry Section at the Príncipe de Asturias University Hospital. He is Principal Investigator of the high-performance research group Psychiatry and Mental Health (code CSa2022/867) at the University of Alcalá and a senior researcher at CIBERSAM (Group 25). He is also responsible for the Psychiatry area at the University of Alcalá. From 2016 to 2022, he served as a member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEPM, formerly SEP-SEPB). He is Editor-in-Chief of The European Journal of Psychiatry. He holds a PhD in Medicine with Extraordinary Award, with a doctoral thesis focused on theory of mind and bipolar disorder. He also holds a Master’s degree in Psychotherapy and is a specialist in Forensic Psychiatry and Neuropsychology. He is Director of the University of Alcalá’s postgraduate programme Expert in Affective Disorders (11th edition) and author of the reference textbook Fundamentos de Psiquiatría (Panamericana). He has published more than 115 articles indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (over 50% in first-quartile journals) on emotions, social cognition, and severe mental disorders, particularly depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. He has been awarded two six-year research evaluation periods (sexenios) by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI) for the periods 2006–2013 and 2014–2019. He has supervised 12 doctoral dissertations, all awarded the highest distinction, as well as 46 undergraduate theses in Medicine (35) and Physiotherapy (11). He has obtained competitive public funding from six research projects of the Carlos III Health Institute, acting as Principal Investigator in three of them and as a collaborating researcher in four. He also supervises a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) funded by the European Commission entitled “Social exclusion as an acute psychosocial stressor in schizophrenia: impact on pathophysiology and social cognition” (SimpSoCoS, No. 101030864). He has received 11 national awards for his teaching and research activity and has completed research stays at prestigious institutions in Haifa (Israel) and at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (Columbia University, New York). His bibliometric indicators include an h-index of 27 (2,430 citations) in Web of Science, 26 in Scopus (2,361 citations), and 34 in Google Scholar (3,998 citations). His total output comprises 185 publications indexed in Web of Science, with 471 impact points. He serves as a reviewer for more than 30 international indexed journals (including Biological Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, and Journal of Affective Disorders). He is also a regular contributor to El País in the Science and Health section and is the author of the essay book Las palabras de la bestia hermosa (Debate, 2024, 5th edition).