Liliana Dell'Osso

Liliana Dell'Osso is Past President of the Italian Society of Psychiatry and the National College of Full Professors of Psychiatry. She graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Pisa in 1979 and specialized in Psychiatry in 1984. She has been a researcher at the Institute of Pharmacology since 1983 and at the Psychiatric Clinic since 1987. She has been an associate professor of Psychiatry since 1992, and since 2001, a full professor and director of the Psychiatry Unit at the AOUP. From 2010 to 2023 she was director of the School of Specialization in Psychiatry at the University of Pisa. She is the author/co-author of over 900 articles in mainly international scientific journals (Scopus h index 78), manuals and over 30 popular essays including: The Other Marilyn (Le Lettere, 2016), The Coco Chanel Case (Giunti, 2018), Facts of Daily Madness (Giunti, 2019), Monsters, Seducers and Geniuses (Alpes, 2021), The Brilliant Body (Alpes, 2021), Brushes as Scalpels (Alpes, 2023), Premature Children of the Future (Alpes, 2023), Torments of Love and Psychosis (edited by, Castelvecchi, 2024), Criminal Mind (Alpes, 2025).

She is part of Top Italian Scientists , Top Italian Women Scientists and 100esperte.it

Awarded the Order of the Cherub , a high academic honor conferred by the Rector to full professors of the University of Pisa who have contributed to increasing its prestige through particular scientific merits.

Among the numerous awards, the XIII Cronin National Nonfiction Award, First Prize for the essay “Covid 19 Pandemic: A Mass Psychological Trauma”.

His research interests include psychiatry , psychopathology, neurobiology, and clinical pharmacology. Of particular note is his contribution to the Spectrum Project, an international collaboration for the development and validation of dimensional assessment tools for the spectrum of mood, anxiety, psychosis, stress-related disorders, and, more recently, the autism and catatonia spectrum.