Michele Fornaro currently serves as a Professor in Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy. He graduated in 2002 from the University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, and completed his residency program in 2008. He served as a research fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an ancillary site of the Harvard University Medical School (2007–2008). He completed his Ph.D.  studies in Applied Neuroscience at the University of Genova in 2011. After attending the 2014 Summer Session for Public Health Studies at Harvard University, he was appointed Adjunct Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University in November 2014 (New York State Psychiatric Institute—2015–2016). He is a member of several academic societies, including the Italian Society of Psychopathology, the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, the International Society of Affective Disorders, the European Society of Psychiatry, the European Neuropsychopharmacology, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, the American Psychopathology Association. His clinical and research interests focus on adult bipolar disorders and clinical psychopharmacology. Finally, he is an author or co-author of more than 270 internal peer-reviewed papers indexed in MedLine, and his Scopus citations are in the 9000 hits and 50 H-index range.