Søren Dinesen Østergaard

Søren Dinesen Østergaard
Born1980 (age 44–45)
AwardsLundbeckfonden’s Research Prize for Young Scientists
Academic background
Alma materAarhus University, Aarhus University
Academic work
InstitutionsAarhus University

Søren Dinesen Østergaard (born 1980) is a full professor at Aarhus University. He leads the research unit at the Department of Affective Disorders at Aarhus University Hospital.

Østergaard's main research focus is on using psychometrics and artificial intelligence to develop, validate and implement clinical tools to improve the treatment of severe mental disorders.[1] He is also known for being the first to suggest the idea of that AI chatbots might lead vulnerable people to develop psychosis, often referred to as AI psychosis.[2] In 2020 he won the Young Investigator Prize from the Lundberg foundation for his research on developing new tools for measuring the severity of psychiatric diseases.[3]

Academic career

Søren Dinesen Østergaard completed a PhD at Aarhus University's Faculty of Medicine in 2014 with a dissertation titled Unipolar Psychotic Depression: Risk Factors, Psychometrics and Bipolar Conversion.[4] The dissertation earned him one of five 2015 prizes given to "particularly talented PhD students" by Aarhus University Research Foundation.[5] Sørenen then joined the faculty of Aarhus University, where he currently leads the research unit at the Department of Affective Disorders at Aarhus University Hospital.[1]

In 2019 Østergaard received funding to analyse how schizophrenia patients' individual characteristics, such as age and genetic profile, affect which antipsychotic medication works best for them.[6] In other research he has shown that using machine learning on patient records can lead to better treatment and prevention in psychiatry.[7]

In 2023 he published an editorial[8] in the academic journal Schizophrenia Bulletin where he "argued that the “cognitive dissonance” of talking to something that seems alive yet is known to be a machine could ignite psychosis in predisposed individuals, especially when the bot obligingly confirms far‑fetched ideas."[2]

Editorial work

Professor Østergaard is deputy editor of the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica[9] and is one of several associate editors for Acta Neuropsychiatrica.[10]

Awards

  • 2023 - Lewis A. Opler Prize from the International Society of Clinical Trials and Methodology[11]
  • 2020 - The Lundbeck Foundations Young Investigator Prize (1 million DKK/approx. €134,000/USD157000)[12]
  • 2012 - Eliteforsk travel grant from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.[13]
  • 2010 - The Lundbeck Foundation's Talent Prize (500,000 DKK / approx. €65250)[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Søren Dinesen Østergaard". Aarhus University. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/49/6/1418/7251361
  3. ^ a b "Søren Dinesen Østergaard: Psykiatriforskning udløser stor videnskabelig pris". Lundberg Fond (in Danish). 13 October 2020.
  4. ^ Østergaard, Søren Dinesen (2014). Unipolar Psychotic Depression: Risk factors, Psychometrics and Bipolar conversion.
  5. ^ "Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD prizes". Aarhus University. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  6. ^ "Bevilling til gavn for patienter med skizofreni | stiften.dk". stiften.dk (in Danish). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  7. ^ "Nyt studie: Kunstig intelligens kan forudsige tvangsindlæggelser og bane vej for forebyggelse". dagensmedicin.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  8. ^ Dinesen, Østergaard, Søren (29 November 2023). "Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Generate Delusions in Individuals Prone to Psychosis?". Schizophrenia Bulletin. 49 (6): 1418–1419. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbad128. ISSN 0586-7614. PMC 10686326. PMID 37625027. Archived from the original on 23 August 2025.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Editorial Board". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1600-0447. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  10. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  11. ^ "Award Recipients". ISCTM | The International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  12. ^ "Prestigious awards for four talented young researchers". Lundbeck Foundation. 13 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Prismodtagere 2012". Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet (in Danish). 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
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