Sinan Gülöksüz

Dr. Sinan Gülöksüz joined the Department of Psychiatry in 2026 as an Associate Professor (tenure), based at the Northern Medical Program in Prince George. He received his medical degree from Gazi University School of Medicine (Türkiye), followed by an MSc in Affective Neuroscience and a PhD in Mental Health and Neuroscience from Maastricht University, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education with Distinction from Cardiff University. Prior to joining UBC, Dr. Gülöksüz held a tenured Associate Professor position at Maastricht University’s School of Mental Health and Neuroscience and an Associate Professor Adjunct position in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Gülöksüz has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles and six book chapters in high-impact journals including JAMA Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, The Lancet Psychiatry, and Nature. In 2024, he received the Research Excellence Award from the Schizophrenia International Research Society. He serves as Associate Editor for NPJ Mental Health Research, Journal of Dual Diagnosis, and PLOS One, and is a member of the editorial board for The British Journal of Psychiatry.

Dr. Gülöksüz is a leading expert in psychiatric epidemiology, with a focus on understanding the exposome—the totality of environmental exposures over a lifetime—and how it contributes to the development of psychiatric disorders, disorder trajectories, and resilience. He was the first investigator to propose the exposome paradigm for psychiatry and has successfully applied the exposome score to understand the genetic and environmental etiology of schizophrenia and improve risk prediction. His innovative work on gene-environment interactions in psychosis spectrum disorders has been supported by major international funding bodies, including the European Commission, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Dr. Gülöksüz has a Google Scholar h-index of 47, and over 12,000 citations.

Pubmed

• 2024 Schizophrenia International Research Society, Research Excellence Award
• 2023 Maastricht University Department of Psychiatry, Employee of the Year
• 2023 Schizophrenia International Research Society, Research Harmonization Award
• 2022 Best paper published in European Psychiatry Journal
• 2022 European Psychiatric Association, Research Prize: the best publication in the category of “clinical psychopathology and refinement of psychiatric diagnostic categories”
• 2020 European Psychiatric Association, Research Prize: the best publication the category of “psychiatric epidemiology, social psychiatry and psychotherapeutic interventions in mental disorders”
• 2017 American Psychiatric Association, Research Colloquium Award Winner
• 2017 Society of Biological Psychiatry, Travel Award
• 2017 World Psychiatric Association, World Congress of Psychiatry Poster Prize
• 2013 Early Career Psychiatrist Scholarship, European Psychiatric Association
• 2011 Early Career Psychiatrists Scholarship, World Psychiatric Association
• 2011 3rd best research poster in 15th Spring Symposium, Psychiatric Association of Turkey
• 2010 2nd best research poster in 14th Spring Symposium, Psychiatric Association of Turkey
• 2010 Spinoza Grant, European Accreditation Committee in CNS (EACIC)
• 2010 Bursary for visiting scholar, Psychiatric Association of Turkey
• 2010 Early Career Psychiatrist Scholarship, World Psychiatric Association
• 2009 Best poster in 16th Annual Forum of European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees, European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees
• 2007 3rd best poster in 15th Annual Forum of European