Dr. Giuseppe Pierpaolo Merola
Psychiatrist & Clinical Researcher
ORCID
Current Positions
MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow
King's College London – Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
2025 – Present
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP)
PhD Candidate (Psychiatric Genetics)
King's College London
2025 – Present
Honorary Clinical Fellow
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Dec 2025 – Present
Clinical work at the Maudsley Hospital, South London
Consultant Psychiatrist
Online Psychiatry Limited
Aug 2025 – Present
Online psychiatric consultations
Education & Qualifications
Specialisation in Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
University of Florence
2021 – 2025
MD, Medicine and Surgery
Sapienza University of Rome
2014 – 2020
Professional Registration
General Medical Council (UK)
Full registration with Specialist (Psychiatry) status
Ordine dei Medici di Roma (Italy)
Full registration
Research Funding
Decoding Depression: Integrating Genetics, Environment, and Clinical Data to Predict Prognosis and Treatments
Medical Research Council (MRC)
2025 – 2028
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor – Anxiety and Stress Disorders
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Editorial Board Member – Male Psychosexual Medicine
The Journal of Sexual Medicine
Editorial Board Member – Psychiatry
Sage Open Medicine
Professional Memberships
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Specialist Associate
European Society of Human Genetics
Member
Our Future Health
Accredited Researcher
Selected Publications
The cliff edge model of the evolution of schizophrenia: Mathematical, epidemiological, and genetic evidence
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
2024 | Mitteroecker P, Merola GP
Evolutionary perspectives on substance and behavioural addictions: Distinct and shared pathways to understanding, prediction and prevention
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
2024 | Hunt A, Merola GP, Carpenter T, Jaeggi AV
Transdiagnostic markers across the psychosis continuum: a systematic review and meta-analysis of resting state fMRI studies
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2024 | Merola GP, Tarchi L, Saccaro LF et al.
Aberrant Salience Inventory: A meta-analysis to investigate its psychometric properties and identify screening cutoff scores
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
2023 | Merola GP, Baccaredda Boy O, Fascina I et al.
Phenomenological psychopathology meets machine learning: A multicentric retrospective study targeting the role of Aberrant Salience assessment in psychosis detection
Schizophrenia Research
2025 | Merola GP, Patti A, Catania G et al.
Research Metrics
28
Publications
56
Peer Reviews
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Citations
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Research Interests
Psychiatric Genetics
Evolutionary Psychiatry
Computational Psychiatry
Depression
Psychosis
Genomic SEM