Drozdstoy Stoyanov, Doctor of Sciences, Full Professor, Medical University in Plovdiv I am clinically trained, board certified consulting psychiatrist, involved actively in philosophy of psychiatry since 2007 and in functional neuroimaging in psychiatry since 2015. I have performed the first functional magnetic resonance tomography in Bulgaria and established the first and only research center in the field in South-Eastern Europe. I was Invited at the discretion of the Chair into the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2007; appointed Vice Chair and member of its Executive Committee in 2012; Chair of Conceptual group in the Global Network for Diagnosis and Classification launched by the World Psychiatric Association (2008). Visiting Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA (2009) and Project Partner at the Collaborating Center for Values Based Practice in Health and Social Care, St.Catherine's College, University of Oxford (2015). International Distinguished Fellow of American Psychiatric Association (2007). Author and co-author of more then 220 scientific publications, more then 90 % as first, or corresponding author. My contributions have received more then 3200 independent citations with an H-index of 31. The other highlights of direct relevance for the position are as follows. I served and am serving for more than 15 years on the Editorial Boards of many journals, most of them indexed on Web of Science and Scopus. In the past five years I have Guest Edited successfully ten completed and 4 ongoing Special Issues and Research Topics for various impacted journals, such as 1. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (2018, 2021, 2023, ongoing) 2. Frontiers in Psychiatry (2020, 2022-2023) 3. Diagnostics (2021, 2023) 4. CNS & Neurological Disorders-Drug Targets (2022) 5. Brain Sciences (2023, 2024) 6. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (2022) 7. Journal of Affective Disorders (2023-ongoing) 8. Depression and Anxiety (ongoing) I have edited seven international monographs, published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Springer Nature, and others. Ad hoc reviewer in New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Translational Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Neurobiology, Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Affective Disorders, Our collaborative research has revealed functional magnetic resonance imaging (neural) correlates of clinical self-evaluation scales in psychiatry, which correspond to two major clinical states (syndromes): paranoid and depressive. Those correlations may constitute diagnostic and prognostic bio-markers as well as theranostic targets. Defining on theoretical level the concept of trans-disciplinary validation. It includes cross-validation of various modalities from neuroimaging integrated with data from other disciplines such as molecular medicine, immunology, and phenomenology into nomothetic networks. Nomothetic networks may potentially provide reification of diagnosis in psychiatry, complementary to ideographic assessment I have mentoring skills (five succesful PhD students, two of them tenured as associate professors); leadership skills (currently responsible for a personnel of 20 employees as Head of Department and Director of Research Institute); communication and management skills (actively involved in international partnerships and networks for more then 14 years) I have hobbies in literature, arts and classical music.