Andrea Raballo

Full Professor and Chair of Psychiatry

Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana

Director of Research and Academic Education

Cantonal Socio-Psychiatric Organization (OSC), Mendrisio

Co-Founder and Co-Director

REMEDI Lab – Rethinking Mental Health through Clinical and Data Intelligence, Euler Institute, USI

Professor Andrea Raballo is a psychiatrist, clinical academic, and researcher in developmental and preventive psychiatry. His scientific and clinical work lies at the intersection of phenomenological psychopathology, developmental neuroscience, and mental health service innovation, with a particular focus on youth mental health and early intervention in psychotic disorders.

He obtained his MD degree and specialization in Psychiatry from the Università di Parma, and a PhD in Clinical Psychopathology from the University of Copenhagen. His academic career has developed across several international institutions, including research and teaching appointments at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Onsager Associate Professor of Development and Psychopathology), and the Università degli Studi di Perugia, where he served as Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

Throughout his clinical and research activity, he has designed and led pioneering early detection and prevention programmes, including the ReARMS programme (Reggio Emilia At-Risk Mental States) and the Centre for Translational, Phenomenological and Developmental Psychopathology (CTPDP), both serving as reference structures for differential assessment and early intervention in young people aged 11–25 years.

His research focuses on developmental psychopathology, transition psychiatry, clinical staging models, transdiagnostic prevention, and intergenerational transmission of psychopathological risk. A central area of his work concerns self-disorders as vulnerability markers for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. More recently, his research has expanded to the development of digital tools and ethical, explainable artificial intelligence in psychiatry, with particular attention to human-in-the-loop models and the translation of clinical reasoning into interpretable computational systems.

Professor Raballo is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology. He has coordinated and participated in several European research projects, including the EU-funded DISCOS and FAMILY projects.

He holds senior roles in international scientific organizations, including membership of the Board of IEPA – Early Intervention in Mental Health, co-chairmanship of the “Prevention of Mental Disorders” Section of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), and participation in the Presidential Working Group on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).

At the Università della Svizzera italiana, he coordinates the teaching activities of the Personality and Cognition module within the Master’s programme in Biomedicine and leads transdisciplinary research and clinical innovation aimed at developing precise, interpretable, equitable, and person-centred models of mental health care, integrating psychiatry, philosophy, and intelligent technologies.