Professor Shitij Kapur is Vice-Chancellor & President of King’s College London. He returned to King’s in June 2021 after over four years at the University of Melbourne, where he was Dean and Assistant Vice Chancellor (Health) for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and interim Deputy Vice Chancellor (International). He was Assistant Principal (Academic Performance), Dean and Head of School for the Institute of Psychiatry and the founding Executive Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s between 2007 to 2016.

He is recognised worldwide for his research on understanding psychosis and antipsychotic treatment – with over 300 papers, presentations and an H-index of over a hundred.