Professor Emmanuel Kuntsche has been trained in Psychology (University of Jena, Germany), Sociology (University of Jena, Germany), Public Health (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands) and Statistics (University of Essex, UK). Emmanuel has received career awards and personal funding from the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs, the German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction Treatment, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and International Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. He has had editorial appointments at nine international journals (currently Addiction, Drug and Alcohol Review, European Addiction Research, the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, and the Journal of Behavioural Addictions).