Philippe Courtet, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montpellier, and Head of the Department of Emergency & Acute Care Psychiatry at the Academic Hospital, Montpellier, France. He leads the Chair of Excellence in Prevention of Suicide of the Fondation Fondamental, and a research group on “Biomarkers and environment in neuropsychiatric disorders” at the INSERM. His areas of interest involve vulnerability to suicidal behaviour in patients with mood disorders, focusing on brain imaging and social pain. He is now implementing projects using web-based tools for assessing and managing suicidal patients.

Professor Courtet is the Chairman of the Section of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), former President of the French Association of Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology, and a member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (former co-chair of the Suicide Network).

He has published more than 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals, numerous book chapters and edited three books on suicidal behaviour.