Andreas Papssotiropoulos was born in Athens, and after studying medicine at the University of Bonn, Germany, he completed clinical training as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University Hospital Bonn. His career includes clinical and research stays at the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich, the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, USA, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, USA. In 2003, Andreas Papssotiropoulos was awarded a research professorship by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2007, he was appointed full professor of Molecular Neuroscience, and in 2010, became the director of the Research Cluster for Cognitive and Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Basel. Andreas Papssotiropoulos has received honors and awards, including the Robert Bing Prize, the Weizmann Lecture, and the Cloëtta Prize. He is also an elected member of the Senate of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.

Seminar topic: Human genetic signatures of remembering and forgetting as a basis for drug discovery