Dr. Pizzagalli received his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and did post-doctoral work at University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 2002 until 2024 he was faculty at Harvard University, where he served as Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, as well as the Director of the McLean Imaging Center at McLean Hospital. In 2025, he joined the University of California at Irvine as the Founding Director of the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and the Noel Drury MD Endowed Chair.  The main goals of his research are to improve our understanding of the psychological, environmental, and neurobiological factors associated with mood disorders, particularly major depression, toward the goal of better prevention and treatment strategies.