Catherine Harmer

Catherine Jane Harmer (born 23 April 1973) is a British cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. She is known for her work on the neuropsychopharmacology of emotion and depression, particularly in identifying how antidepressant medications affect emotional processing before changes in mood become evident. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Oxford Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory (PERL) and Associate Head of Department of Psychiatry University of Oxford.

Career

Harmer obtained her DPhil from the University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/) where she focused on mechanisms underpinning drug addiction. She moved to Oxford in 1998 to begin a postdoctoral research position and was later funded by a Medical Research Council training fellowship. Harmer was the founding member of the Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Lab (PERL). She became a full Professor in 2010 and Associate Head of Department in 2021. Harmer is also a fellow of Corpus Christi College.[1]

Harmer is known for her work on early mechanisms of antidperessant drug action where her work has had a considerable impact on understanding and developing novel treatments in depression, developing biomarkers of treatment efficacy and identifying novel therapeutic targets for depression [2]

Harmer is the current president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (2024-2026) and a fellow of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She has served as the treasurer on the Executive Committee of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology from 2019 to 2022,[3] and for the British Neuroscience Association from 2018-2021. Harmer is an Associate editor of Psychological Medicine (2018- ), she also sits on the editorial boards of Biological Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Harmer was interviewed and appeared on Radio 4 for series ‘Is psychiatry working?’ (2024) and ‘Made of stronger stuff: serotonin (2023).

  1. ^ "Professor Catherine Harmer | Corpus Christi College Oxford". www.ccc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  2. ^ "Catherine Harmer". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  3. ^ "The Executive Committee". www.ecnp.eu. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
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