Alex Hofer is a full professor at the Medical University Innsbruck in Austria. He specialized in Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the Medical University Innsbruck. He has held a leading position at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Medical Psychology at the Medical University Innsbruck since 2004. In 2017, he was initially deputy and then interim director of the Division of Psychiatry I and became its director in 2019. His research interests include schizophrenia and affective disorders as well as dementia and substance use disorders.