Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Dr De Brito’s research uses behavioural, neurocognitive and structural/functional magnetic resonance brain imaging techniques to better understand the characteristics of different subgroups of children and adults displaying severe antisocial behaviour and psychopathic traits. A second strand of his research interests is to better understand patterns of resilience and vulnerability in children and adults who have experienced early adversity. The goals are to clarify why some individuals who have experienced early adversity show resilience while others do not, whether individuals who have experienced early adversity process emotions differently, and whether structural and functional neural markers of resilience can be identified.

Dr De Brito considers PhD applications on a rolling basis. Students interested in working on topics related to his research and with a strong academic track record should email him in the first instance.

20092024

Research activity per year

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Graeme Fairchild

  • University of Bath

External person

Christine Freitag

  • Goethe University

External person

Kerstin Konrad

  • University Hospital RWTH Aachen
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)

External person

Christina Stadler

  • University of Basel
  • University Hospital Zürich

External person

Gregor Kohls

  • University Hospital RWTH Aachen
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Technische Universität Dresden

External person

Karen González-Madruga

  • Middlesex University
  • University of Southampton
  • King’s College London

External person

Anne Martinelli

  • Goethe University
  • Fresenius University of Applied Sciences

External person

Areti Smaragdi

  • University of Southampton
  • Child Development Institute, Toronto
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

External person

Nora Maria Raschle

  • University of Basel
  • University Hospital Zürich
  • Harvard Medical School
  • University of Zurich
  • ETH Zürich

External person

Anka Bernhard

  • Goethe University

External person

Arne Popma

  • Amsterdam University Medical Center
  • VUmc/De Bascule
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External person

E. Viding

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann

  • University Hospital RWTH Aachen
  • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
  • RWTH Aachen University

External person

Amaia Hervas

  • University Hospital Mutua Terrassa
  • Global Institute of Neurodevelopment Integrated Care (IGAIN)

External person

Sarah Baumann

  • University Hospital RWTH Aachen

External person

Aranzazu Fernández-Rivas

  • Basurto University Hospital

External person

Katharina Ackermann

  • Goethe University
  • University of Hamburg

External person

Essi Viding

  • Imperial College London
  • King’s College London

External person

Helena Oldenhof

  • Amsterdam University Medical Center
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External person

Lucres Jansen

  • Amsterdam University Medical Center
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External person

Linda Kersten

  • University of Basel
  • University Hospital Zürich

External person

Roberta Dochnal

  • University of Szeged

External person

Dimitris Dikeos

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

External person

Harriet Cornwell

  • University of Bath

External person

Réka Siklósi

  • University of Szeged

External person

S. Hodgins

  • Forensic Mental Health Science

External person

E.J. McCrory

  • Anna Freud Centre
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Anna Freud Centre
  • NSPCC

External person

Lynn Valérie Fehlbaum

  • Psychiatric University Hospital
  • University of Basel
  • University Hospital Zürich

External person

Helen Lazaratou

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

External person

Ignazio Puzzo

  • West London Mental Health NHS Trust

External person

Martin Steppan

  • Psychiatric University Hospital
  • University of Basel
  • University Hospital Zürich

External person

Amy Wells

  • Cardiff University

External person

Aitana Bigorra Gualba

  • University Hospital Mutua Terrassa

External person

Maider Gonzalez de Artaza-Lavesa

  • Universidad de La Rioja
  • Basurto University Hospital
  • International University of La Rioja

External person

Marlene Staginnus

  • University of Bath

External person

Martin Prätzlich

  • University of Basel
  • University Hospital Zürich

External person

Nicola Toschi

  • Tor Vergata University of Rome
  • Harvard Medical School

External person

Eamon McCrory

  • Imperial College London

External person

Iñaki Kerexeta-Lizeaga

  • Basurto University Hospital

External person

Willeke Martine Menks

  • Psychiatric University Hospital
  • University of Basel

External person

Marietta Kirchner

  • Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

External person

Meinhard Kieser

  • Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  • Heidelberg University Hospital

External person

Malou Gundlach

  • University Hospital RWTH Aachen

External person

Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Torres

  • Basurto University Hospital

External person

Inti A Brazil

  • Radboud Universiteit

External person

Philippe Peigneux

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • UNI - ULB Neurosciences Institute, ULB

External person

Hichem Slama

  • Erasme Hospital
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles

External person

Angeliki Konsta

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

External person

Noortje Vriends

  • University of Basel

External person

Molly Batchelor

  • University of Southampton

External person

Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Institut universitaire de santé mentale de Montréal
  • Karolinska Institutet

External person

M. Wilke

  • Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen,
  • University of Tbingen

External person

Alison Mary

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Hematologie Biologique

External person

Isabelle Massat

  • INSERM, U894
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • UNI - ULB Neurosciences Institute, ULB
  • National Fund of Scientific Research (FNRS

External person

Andreas G. Chiocchetti

  • Goethe University

External person

Thierry Metens

  • Radiology Department
  • Clinics of Magnetic Resonance
  • Erasme Hospital

External person

Simon Baijot

  • UNESCOG - Research Unit in Cognitive Neurosciences, ULB
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles

External person

Danielle Balériaux

  • Radiology Department
  • Clinics of Magnetic Resonance
  • Erasme Hospital

External person

Martin Kavec

  • Radiology Department
  • Clinics of Magnetic Resonance
  • Erasme Hospital

External person

Barbara Franke

  • Radboud Universiteit

External person

Silvina Guijarro

  • University Hospital Mutua Terrassa

External person

Eva Unternaehrer

  • University Hospital Basel

External person

Paul J Frick

  • Louisiana State University

External person

Andrea Mechelli

  • King’s College London

External person

Agnes Vetro

  • University of Szeged

External person

N.M.G. Fontaine

  • Indiana University

External person

Marieke Klein

  • Radboud Universiteit
  • University Medical Center Utrecht

External person

Nils Opel

  • University of Muenster

External person

Karen Caeyenberghs

  • Deakin University

External person

Guohao Zhang

  • University of Maryland

External person

Dave Checknita

  • University of Uppsala

External person

Eus Van Someren

  • Amsterdam University Medical Center

External person

Steven C R Williams

  • King’s College London

External person

Daniel S. Pine

  • National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, Bethesda

External person

Alexander Teumer

  • University of Greifswald

External person

Eduard T. Klapwijk

  • Leiden University

External person

Emily Denis

  • University of Utah
  • Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

External person

Edmund Sonuga-Barke

  • King’s College London

External person

Daniel McDonald

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Laura Berner

  • University of California, San Diego

External person

Yanli Zhang-James

  • SUNY Upstate Medical University

External person

Frank G. Hillary

  • Penn State University

External person

Carrie E. Bearden

  • University of California, Los Angeles

External person

Joseph O’ Neill

  • University of California System

External person

Maki Terao

  • Kyoto University

External person

Arne Hartz

  • RWTH Aachen University

External person

Ronald Cohen

  • University of Florida

External person

Inga Neumann

  • University of Regensburg

External person

Margaret J Wright

  • Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane, Australia

External person

Iliyan Ivanov

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

External person

Lianne Schmaal

  • University of Melbourne

External person

Courtney A. Filippi

  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Torino

External person

Leonardo Tozzi

  • Stanford University

External person

Patricia Conrod

  • Centre de Recherche du CHU Ste-Justine, and Department of Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

External person

Inga K.q Koerte

  • Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

External person

Tisse van Nimwegen

  • Amsterdam University Medical Center

External person

Michael Pluess

  • Queen Mary, University of London

External person

Jesper Anderson

  • University of Oxford

External person

Henry Völzke

  • Ernst Moritz Arndt University
  • University of Greifswald

External person

Yolanda Gil

  • Information Sciences Institute
  • University of California System

External person

Hanan Khalaf

  • King’s College London

External person

Anderson Winkler

  • National Institute of Mental Health

External person

Jonathan D. Rohrer

  • University College London

External person

Jun Soo Kwon

  • Seoul National University
  • Seoul National University Hospital

External person

David C. Glahn

  • Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

External person

Max A. Laansma

  • Amsterdam University Medical Center

External person

Joanna K Bright

  • University of Southern California
  • University of California System

External person

Diana Prata

  • King’s College London

External person

Carles Soriano-Mas

  • CIBERSAM
  • Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

External person

Scott Mackey

  • University of Vermont

External person

Natalia Shatokhina

  • University of Southern California

External person

Lauren E. Salminen

  • University of Southern California

External person

Carrie McDonald

  • Psychiatry, San Diego

External person

Georg Homuth

  • University of Greifswald

External person

Yann Chye

  • Monash University

External person

Laura K.M. Han

  • University of Amsterdam

External person

Paul M. Thompson

  • University of California System

External person

Tomas Hajek

  • Dalhousie University
  • National Institute of Mental Health

External person

Amanda Tilot

  • University of Southern California

External person

Antonia Tkalcec

  • Psychiatric University Hospital

External person

Janine Alfano

  • University of Basel

External person

Bhim Adhikari

  • University of Maryland

External person

Sylvane Desriviere

  • King’s College London

External person

Sara Bertolín

  • Bellvitge University Hospital

External person

Nynke A. Groenewold

  • University of Cape Town

External person

Tatsuyoshi Ogawa

  • Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

External person

Federica Piras

  • Fondazione Santa Lucia

External person

Veit Roessner

  • Technische Universität Dresden

External person

Ana Cubillo

  • University Hospital Basel

External person

Udo Dannlowski

  • University of Muenster

External person

Candice L Odgers

  • University of California, Irvine

External person

Alice Jones Bartoli

  • University of London

External person

Sophie Townend

  • University of Bath

External person

Jian Chen

  • Murdoch Children's Research Institute
  • Monash University
  • Southeast University
  • Ohio State University
  • Southern University of Science and Technology

External person

Tiril P. Gurholt

  • Oslo University Hospital
  • University of Oslo
  • Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT)

External person

Robert James R Blair

  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre
  • University of East Anglia

External person

Laurena Holleran

  • National University of Ireland, Galway

External person

Robert R Althof

  • University of Vermont Medical Center

External person

Miriam C Klein-Flügge

  • University of Oxford

External person

Daqiang Sun

  • University of California, Los Angeles

External person

Panagiota Bali

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

External person

Stefan Ehrlich

  • Technische Universität Dresden

External person

Rebecca C. Knickmeyer

  • Michigan State University

External person

Sarah Koerner

  • University of Bath

External person

Sarah L Gregory

  • Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
  • University of Oxford

External person

Merel C. Postema

  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

External person

Premika Boedhoe

  • Amsterdam University Medical Center

External person

Gary Donohoe

  • National University of Ireland, Galway

External person

Nobuhito Abe

  • Kyoto University

External person

Julia A. Camilleri

  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)

External person

Tiffany C. Ho

  • Stanford University
  • University of California, San Francisco

External person

Katharina Wittfeld

  • University of Greifswald

External person

Jean-Paul Fouche

  • University of Cape Town

External person

Thomas Frodl

  • Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)

External person

Michal Paradysz

  • University of Bath

External person

Fabrizio Piras

  • Fondazione Santa Lucia

External person

Sean N. Hatton

  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of Sydney

External person

Andre Aleman

  • University of Groningen
  • Shenzhen University

External person

Sabine C. Herpertz

  • Heidelberg University Hospital

External person

T.D. Vloet

  • RWTH Aachen University

External person

Alexander Olsen

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Trondheim University Hospital

External person

Carrie Esopenko

  • School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Newark,

External person

Lei E Wang

  • Ohio State University

External person

Maaike Oosterling

  • University of Bath

External person

Josselin Houenou

  • INSERM
  • CEA Saclay
  • Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris

External person

Christina Schwenck

  • Goethe University
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen

External person

Ryusuke Nakai

  • Kyoto University

External person

Bernhard T. Baune

  • University of Muenster
  • University of Melbourne

External person

Rajendra A Morey

  • Duke University School of Medicine

External person

Alex Martin

  • King’s College London

External person

Ingrid Agartz

  • Oslo University Hospital

External person

Stefania Tognin

  • King’s College London

External person

Eco J C de Geus

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External person

H.J. Grabe

  • University of Greifswald
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)

External person

Arthur van Rhijn

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External person

Andrew R. Mayer

  • Mind Research Network, Albuquerque

External person

Ole Andreassen

  • Oslo University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.

External person

Sook-Lei Liew

  • University of Southern California

External person

Martine Hoogman

  • Radboud Universiteit

External person

Pauline Favre

  • INSERM
  • CEA Saclay

External person

Esther Walton

  • University of Bath

External person

Kevin Hilbert

  • Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin

External person

Cyril Boonmann

  • University of Basel

External person

Norbert Hosten

  • University of Greifswald

External person

Tianye Jia

  • Fudan University
  • King’s College London

External person

Ahmad R. Hariri

  • University of Pittsburgh

External person

Xiang-Zhen Kong

  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

External person

Miguel E. Rentería

  • QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

External person

Jeanne Leerssen

  • Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience NIN - KNAW

External person

Guido van Wingen

  • Departments of Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

External person

Ulrike Lueken

  • Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin

External person

Abraham Nunes

  • Dalhousie University

External person

K. Konrad

  • RWTH Aachen University

External person

Fabio Macciardi

  • University of California, Irvine

External person

Neda Jahanshad

  • University of California System

External person

Christopher R.K. Ching

  • University of California System

External person

Philip K McGuire

  • University of Oxford
  • NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
  • Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Celia van der Merwe

  • Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

External person

Jan K Buitelaar

  • Radboud Universiteit

External person

Tim Hahn

  • University of Munster

External person

T. Günther

  • RWTH Aachen University

External person

G. Côté

  • Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

External person

Brenda Bartnik-Olson

  • Loma Linda University Children's Hospital

External person

Gemma Modinos

  • King’s College London

External person

Hugh P Garavan

  • University of Vermont Medical Center

External person

Sarah E. Medland

  • Psychiatric Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane

External person

Agnes B. McMahon

  • The Kavli Foundation, Los Angeles

External person

Erik Elster

  • Technische Universität Dresden

External person

Peter Kochunov

  • University of Maryland

External person

Pratik Mukherjee

  • University of California System
  • Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, San Francisco

External person

Robin Bülow

  • University of Greifswald

External person

Boris Schiffer

  • LWL-University Hospital Bochum

External person

Derrek P. Hibar

  • Genentech, Inc.

External person

Philip Lindner

  • Stockholm University

External person

Sven C. Mueller

  • Ghent University
  • University of Deusto

External person

Fabrizio Pizzagalli

  • University of Southern California

External person

Robin M Murray

  • King’s College London
  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Alexander P. Lin

  • Harvard Medical School

External person

Pia Rotshtein

  • University of Haifa

External person

Willem B. Bruin

  • University of Amsterdam

External person

Edward Barker

  • King’s College London

External person

Dennis Hernaus

  • Maastricht University

External person

Sophia I. Thomopoulos

  • University of Southern California

External person

B. Herpertz-Dahlmann

  • RWTH Aachen University

External person

Eileen Luders

  • University of Auckland
  • University of Southern California

External person

Mark R. Dadds

  • University of Sydney

External person

Rachel Brouwer

  • University Medical Center Utrecht

External person

Nikola Fann

  • Goethe University

External person

Boris A. Gutman

  • Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
  • Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Kharkevich Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation

External person

David Baron

  • Western University of Health Sciences

External person

Stephen V. Faraone

  • SUNY Upstate Medical University

External person

Janita Bralten

  • Radboud Universiteit

External person

Sonja Zwarte

  • Utrecht University

External person

Peristera Paschou

  • Purdue University

External person

Ophélie Courbet

  • Université de Paris

External person

Ian H. Harding

  • Monash University

External person

Katrina L. Grasby

  • QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

External person

Paolo Fusar-Poli

  • King’s College London
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Pavia
  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
  • Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

External person

Carolien G.F. de Kovel

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre
  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

External person

Plamina Dimanova

  • University of Zurich

External person

Lisa T. Eyler

  • Department of Psychiatry
  • VA San Diego Healthcare System

External person

Daniel Garijo

  • Information Sciences Institute
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

External person

Elena Pozzi

  • University of Melbourne
  • The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health

External person

Joshua A. Sommers

  • Yale University

External person

Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol

  • Utrecht University

External person

Sinead Kelly

  • Harvard Medical School
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

External person

Arjun Sethi

  • Imperial College London

External person

Talia M. Nir

  • University of Southern California

External person

Réka Borbás

  • University of Zurich

External person

Maria Jalbrzikowski

  • University of Pittsburgh

External person

Moji Aghajani

  • Leiden University

External person

Danai Dima

  • King’s College London

External person

Leyla Namazova-Baranova

  • Russian National Research Medical University
  • Central Clinical Hospital

External person

Simon E Fisher

  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
  • Radboud Universiteit

External person

James Cole

  • University College London

External person

Clyde Franks

  • Radboud Universiteit
  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

External person

Giuseppe Sartori

  • University of Padova

External person