Maurizio Pompili, M.D, Ph.D. is a Full Professor and Chair of Psychiatry as part of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his M.D. degree and trained in Psychiatry (both summa cum laude). In addition, he is his faculty's Director of the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry.
He is the Director of the University Psychiatric Clinic and the Suicide Prevention Center at Sant’Andrea Hospital in Rome.
He is the President of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique degree program at the Sapienza University of Rome.
He has a doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences. He was also part of the Community at McLean Hospital – Harvard Medical School, the USA, where he received a psychiatry fellowship.

He is the recipient of the American Association of Suicidology’s 2008 Shneidman Award for “Outstanding contributions in research in suicidology.”

Apart from being the Italian Representative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) for many years, he has been one of this association's vice-presidents. He is now Co-Chair of the IASP Special Interest Group in Risk Resilience and Reasons for Living. Currently, he is a member of the IASP Executive Committee, which is committed to the role of Treasures. He is also a member of the International Academy for Suicide Research and the American Association of Suicidology. He is also President of the Suicidology Section of the Italian Psychiatric Society;

He has published over 650 papers on suicide, bipolar disorders, and other psychiatric perspectives, including original research articles, book chapters, and editorials. He co-edited ten international books on suicide;

He ranks in the top 10 suicide authors of 500 world suicide authors listed in the ISI Web of Science (this is in terms of the number of focused works on suicide that are indexed in the ISI Web of Science).

He has been recognized by Expertscape as an expert in suicide,

H-index: 78 (July 2024).