Prof Christine Lochner is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, and Co-Director of the SA MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders. She has obtained a PhD in Psychiatry and has 25 years of clinical, epidemiological and neuroscience research experience as a clinical psychologist working in the field of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. She is principal investigator of a number of research programs and has a strong track record in student mentorship, having successfully supervised postgraduate scholars,

PhD candidates, and Master’s students, guiding them through various stages of their research and academic development. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), a director of the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS), and a member of the Obsessive-Compulsive Research Network (OCRN), and she is a member of the scientific advisory board of the EU Horizon Bootstrap project. She has also served as project coordinator of the 21 Nation International Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Accreditation Task Force (ATF) of the Canadian Institute for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.

Currently, Prof Lochner serves as an associate editor on the board of Comprehensive Psychiatry, as a board member of the Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and related disorders, as a member of the Working Group for Imaging and Genetics in Neuroscience (IMAGINE), and as member of the South African Biological Psychiatry Congress organization and scientific committee. She has published 200+ papers in scientific journals and has served as guest editor for special issues focused on OCD and related disorders over the lifespan and Psychiatry in Africa in prominent Psychiatry journals. Email: cl2@sun.ac.za