Professor Dag Aarsland joined the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in January 2016, from Karolinska Institutet where he has been professor of clinical dementia research since 2011. He is renowned throughout the world in the field of Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson’s disease but has made contributions across the spectrum of old age psychiatry.

Prof Aarsland is currently Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, Department of Psychological Medicine and Head of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He also leads the EU funded €21m PREDICTOM consortium to pioneer early detection of Alzheimer's Disease using an AI driven screening platform.

As well as heading the Centre, Prof Aarsland contributes to several new healthy brain ageing and dementia research initiatives. He is also a clinician within South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and will help in training the next cohort of old age psychiatrists.