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 Psychiatrist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

2025 – Present

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

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.

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Research Metrics

28

Publications

56

Peer Reviews

19

Journals Reviewed

Research Interests

Psychiatric Genetics Evolutionary Psychiatry Computational Psychiatry Depression Psychosis Genomic SEM