Our Team

Meet our dedicated research team members working on mood disorders and suicide prevention.

Co-Directors

Runsen Chen

Dr. Runsen Chen is an Associate Professor at the Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University. He received his DPhil in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the epidemiology and neurobiology of self-harm and suicide, with an emphasis on developing innovative approaches to risk identification, prevention, and intervention.

Runsen Chen
Zhiyi Chen

Dr. Zhiyi Chen is appointed professorship at Experimental Research Center for Medical and Psychological Sciences, Third Military Medical University. He received his DPhil in Psychology from the Southwest University. His research focuses on the computational neuroimaging psychiatry, particularly in neurocomputational mechanism of procrastination problems, depression-anxiety comorbidity. He also has huge enthusiasm to appeal and promote open science practices in psychiatric sciences.

Zhiyi Chen

Lab Manager

Jingxuan Zhang

Lead of Lab Manager Team at the MDS Lab. He gains PhD at the Third Military Medical University,and is current appointed as the deputy director of School of Psychology, Third Military Medical University. His major focuses on physiological substrates underlying suicide and has tremendous research interests on suicide prevention and mental health educations.

Jingxuan Zhang
Liping Shi

Lab manager of MDS at Experimental Research Center for Medical and Psychological Sciences, Third Military Medical University.

Liping Shi
Yurong Zhao

Assistant Laboratory Technician of MDS at Experimental Research Center for Medical and Psychological Sciences, Third Military Medical University.

Yurong Zhao
Weijian Wu

Lab manager of MDS at Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University.

Weijian Wu

Research Assistant