Paris is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London based in the Department of Psychosis Studies. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Wales and a MSc with distinction in Brain Imaging & Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Birmingham. He has worked as a research assistant at the Department of Mental Health & Neurosurgery of the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens and clinically in the Birmingham Early Intervention in Psychosis Services.

He undertook his doctoral training with a joint funded Priestley University of Birmingham - University of Melbourne PhD Fellowship at the Institute for Mental Health and the Centre for Human Brain Health. He then worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham leading his site within the NIH-funded PRESCIENT consortium and coordinating with international collaborators from 10 countries and 12 sites to successfully develop novel machine learning solutions for psychosis.

He currently leads the AIM lab where he uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence methods to incorporate multimodal data from the phenotypic, neuroanatomical, proteomic and genomic levels to improve understanding of disease processes in mental illness, by disentangling phenotypic and neurobiological heterogeneity in a transdiagnostic manner. He focuses in the translation of data science into clinical care in mental health disorders positioned at the crosshairs of state-of-the-art analytical techniques and transformative clinical applications. His works spans psychosis, depression, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease among others.

Research Interests:

• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in Translational Research
• Youth Mental Health
• Neuroimaging
• Inflammation
• Biomarkers

Expertise and Public Engagement:

• Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Bloomwise: https://www.bloomwiseltd.com/
• Organised and presented an event at the ThinkTank Museum for Brain Awareness Week engaging with children and teenagers about his research.
• Won Virtual Consultancy Challenge in partnership with Centre for Mental Health to improve mental health of people who work for small businesses.
• Published several blogs e.g (https://thepsychphdpathway.com/2020/10/13/machine-learning-in-mental-health-research/ and https://www.nationalelfservice.net/author/paris-lalousis/)
• Created YouTube video showcasing mental health work at the Institute for Mental health for World Mental Health day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGArR-iMU_s )