Carmine M. Pariante is Professor of Biological Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, and Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. His work focuses on depression and fatigue, with a particular interest in the perinatal period and in subjects with medical disorders. Moreover, he also uses experimental and cellular models. More recently, he has developed an interest in the effects of the arts, social prescribing, and nutritional interventions, on mental health. He has published more that 450 papers, with a Google Scholar H-Index of >100, and has received numerous awards for his research, most recently the 2012 “Academic Psychiatrist of the Year” Award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the 2015 Anna-Monika Prize for Research on Depression, the 2016 PNIRS Normal Cousins Award for Research in Psychoneuroimmunology, the 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Infant Mental Health, the 2017 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award (one of the most prestigious international research awards in psychiatry), the 2018 Art of Neuroscience Award, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Netherlands) and the 2021 Psychiatric Communicator of the Year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is also the appointed Editor in Chief of the journal Brain Behaviour and Immunity, the President of the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology, and a 2018-2021 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. Professor Pariante has extensive experience in reaching out to the press, with >60 media appearances in: radio and TV documentaries, for the BBC and Arte TV; podcasts for The Guardian the Wellcome Trust and My Possible Self ; interviews on the BBC (Radio 4 Today and PM programmes; BBC News TV Channel), CNN, Sky News, Times Radio, and many national and international newspapers and magazines; and articles written for the Guardian, Independent, the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. Moreover, he is the Editor of the mental health digital publication www.inspirethemind.org, with >100,000 views. His dream is that new therapeutic tools targeting the stress and inflammatory systems will soon be available to alleviate the suffering of patients with mental health problems.