Pr. Llorca is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University Clermont Auvergne (UCA) in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the Head of the Psychiatric Department at the University Medical Center in Clermont-Ferrand. He is member of the French Society for Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology, the European Psychiatric Association, and the World Federation for Biological Psychiatry. He is a member of the executive committee of the French Foundation for Mental Health “FondaMental”, and is the national co-ordinator of the four French Networks of the “FondaMental” Expert Centers (Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Asperger, and Treatment Resistant Depression). His research interests include pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic approaches of psychotropics, especially antipsychotics and antidepressants; determinants of adherence to treatment (e.g., attitudes and beliefs related to treatment). He is the Principal Investigator of the PsyCoh Schizophrenia Project (French cohort of schizophrenia patients), which is funded by the PIA (Programme Investissement d’Avenir). He is Co-Director of the theme “Image and Connectomics in Clinical Neurosciences” (ICCN) in Research Unit UMR CNRS UCA 6602 - Institut Pascal.