Dr. Sullivan is a Professor of Psychiatric Genetics at the Karolinska Institute in the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is also the Yeargan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Genetics and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His lab investigates the molecular genetics of schizophrenia, major depressive disorder (including post-partum depression), eating disorders, and autism. Dr. Sullivan is a founder and the lead principal investigator of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, the largest consortium in the history of psychiatry. He is involved in a wide range of genomic studies of human diseases and has multiple NIH grants. At Karolinska Institutet Dr Sullivan is responsible for the KI Psychiatric Genomics Institute - a systematic program established to evaluate the epidemiological, molecular, and cellular effects of genetic risk loci for psychiatric disorders. Dr. Sullivan has published over 320 papers and 40 reviews/chapters.