Zoltan is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroscience at James Cook University. He was previously University Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge where he served as Director of Studies for Medicine. He trained at the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and at The Rockefeller University. He was appointed as Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for 6 months in 2019 to investigate the neuro-metabolic aspects of schizophrenia. He conducts research on major psychiatric disorders and studies the contribution of systemic factor such as stress, energy metabolism, gut microbiota and immune activation to brain health. He has close to a hundred publications (H index 35). He was awarded the Curt Richter Prize by the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology; the DuPont-Warren Award by the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and the Brain Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD) Young Investigator Award. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. He serves as Associate Editor for Nutritional Neuroscience and for Frontiers in Neuroscience, and member of the editorial board of the journals Stress and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.