Professor Matthew Hotopf CBE

Biography

Matthew Hotopf CBE is Executive Dean at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. 

Professor Hotopf is a Professor of General Hospital Psychiatry, a consultant liaison psychiatrist, and former Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) from 2014-2023.

As an alumnus of King’s College London, Professor Hotopf has a rich history with the university as both student and staff. Matthew was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine in 1998. He was Vice Dean (Research) at the IoPPN from 2017-2023 and led the IoPPN’s return to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

Matthew trained in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in Psychiatry at the Maudsley. He has broad research interests including using epidemiological and novel mobile health methods to interrogate the relationship between mental and physical health. He has a national research profile as a member of the REF and inaugural chair of the NIHR’s Translational Research Collaboration in Mental Health.

Matthew’s awards include a CBE for services to Psychiatric Research in June 2018 and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine’s 2016 Wayne Katon Research Award. He is also a NIHR Senior Investigator and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.