Philipp Homan

Philipp Homan, PhD, Prof. Dr. med. univ.

Deputy Director
Head - Center for Acute Psychotic Disorders
Group Leader

Phone: +41 (0)58 384 22 26

Curriculum vitae

Philipp is a member of the medical faculty at the University of Zurich and Deputy Director of the University Hospital of Psychiatry, where he also serves as Chief Physician (Stv. Klinikdirektor und Chefarzt). He chairs Fachbereich 4 (Clinical Neurosciences and Psychiatry) within the faculty and leads the Homan-Lab at the Neuroscience Center Zurich.

Philipp studied business and computer science at the Technical University and medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. He completed his residency in psychiatry with Werner Strik and earned a PhD in clinical neuroscience with Thomas Dierks at the University of Bern, where he also led the Brain Stimulation Unit as attending physician. He then spent several years in New York, first as a postdoctoral fellow with Daniela Schiller at Mount Sinai, and later as faculty at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and the Zucker School of Medicine. He returned to Switzerland to take up his current clinical and academic roles in Zurich.

His research combines theory- and data-driven approaches to the study of severe mental illness, particularly psychosis. His group integrates cognitive neuroscience and data science to study language, thought, and decision processes in psychiatric disorders. Philipp serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including the British Journal of Psychiatry and BMC Medicine. His work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC).

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2025
- Boudriot, E., Stephan, M., Rabe, F., Smigielski, L., Schmitt, A., Falkai, P., Ziller, M. J., Rossner, M. J., Homan, P., Papiol, S., & Raabe, F. J. (2025). Genetic Analysis of Retinal Cell Types in Neuropsychiatric Disorders JAMA Psychiatry, 82, 285–295. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4230
- Sarti, P., Surbeck, W., Cecere, G., Dannecker, N., Horisberger, R., Kallen, N., Omlor, W., Steiner, A., Palpella, D., Brandenberg, M., Edkins, V., Langer, N., Blom, J. M. C., & Homan, P. (2025). An exploratory network analysis to investigate schizotypy’s structure using the ‘Multidimensional Schizotypy Scale’ and ‘Oxford-Liverpool Inventory’ in a healthy cohort Schizophrenia, 11, 34. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-025-00584-3
- Panchalingam, J., Horisberger, R., Corda, C., Kleisner, N., Krasnoff, J., Burrer, A., Spiller, T., Edkins, V., Seifritz, E., & Homan, P. (2025). Motivational Interviewing in Patients with Acute Psychosis: A Feasibility Study Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 6, sgaf004. https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgaf004

2024
- Palominos, C., He, R., Fröhlich, K., Mülfarth, R. R., Seuffert, S., Sommer, I. E., Homan, P., Kircher, T., Stein, F., & Hinzen, W. (2024). Approximating the semantic space: word embedding techniques in psychiatric speech analysis Schizophrenia, 10, 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-024-00524-7
- Iseli, G. C., Ulrich, S., Stämpfli, P., Studerus, E., Coynel, D., Riecher-Rössler, A., Homan, P., Kaiser, S., Borgwardt, S., Kirschner, M., & Schmidt, A. (2024). Parsing heterogeneity in global and local white matter integrity at different stages across the psychosis continuum Schizophrenia, 10, 106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-024-00516-7
- Sharkey, R. J., Bacon, C., Peterson, Z., Rootes-Murdy, K., Salvador, R., Pomarol-Clotet, E., Karuk, A., Homan, P., Ji, E., Omlor, W., Homan, S., Georgiadis, F., Kaiser, S., Kirschner, M., Ehrlich, S., Dannlowski, U., Grotegerd, D., Goltermann, J., Meinert, S., … et al. (2024). Differences in the neural correlates of schizophrenia with positive and negative formal thought disorder in patients with schizophrenia in the ENIGMA dataset Molecular Psychiatry, 29, 3086–3096. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-024-02563-z
- De Pieri, M., Berg, X., Georgiadis, F., Brakowski, J., Burrer, A., Sabé, M., Kaliuzhna, M., Vetter, S., Seifritz, E., Homan, P., Kaiser, S., & Kirschner, M. (2024). Negative Symptoms and Their Associations With Other Clinical Variables and Working Memory Across the Schizophrenia Spectrum and Bipolar Disorder Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 5, sgae024. https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgae024
- Jiang, Y., Luo, C., Wang, J., Palaniyappan, L., Chang, X., Xiang, S., Zhang, J., Duan, M., Huang, H., Gaser, C., Nemoto, K., Miura, K., Hashimoto, R., Westlye, L. T., Richard, G., Fernandez-Cabello, S., Parker, N., Andreassen, O. A., Kircher, T., … et al. (2024). Neurostructural subgroup in 4291 individuals with schizophrenia identified using the subtype and stage inference algorithm Nature Communications, 15, 5996. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50267-3
- Burrer, A., Egger, S. T., Spiller, T. R., Kirschner, M., Homan, P., Seifritz, E., & Vetter, S. (2024). Examining the impact of substance use on hospital length of stay in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: a retrospective analysis BMC Medicine, 22, 233. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03447-3
- Georgiadis, F., Larivière, S., Glahn, D., Hong, L. E., Kochunov, P., Mowry, B., Loughland, C., Pantelis, C., Henskens, F. A., Green, M. J., Cairns, M. J., Michie, P. T., Rasser, P. E., Catts, S., Tooney, P., Scott, R. J., Schall, U., Carr, V., Quidé, Y., … et al. (2024). Connectome architecture shapes large-scale cortical alterations in schizophrenia: a worldwide ENIGMA study Molecular Psychiatry, 29, 1869–1881. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-024-02442-7
- Rubio, J. M., Lencz, T., Cao, H., Kraguljac, N., Dhamala, E., Homan, P., Horga, G., Sarpal, D. K., Argyelan, M., Gallego, J., Cholewa, J., Barber, A., Kane, J. M., & Malhotra, A. K. (2024). Replication of a neuroimaging biomarker for striatal dysfunction in psychosis Molecular Psychiatry, 29, 929–938. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02381-9
- Müller, M., Brackmann, N., Homan, P., Vetter, S., Seifritz, E., Ajdacic-Gross, V., & Hotzy, F. (2024). Predictors for early and long-term readmission in involuntarily admitted patients Comprehensive Psychiatry, 128, 152439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2023.152439

2023
- Kuzo, N., Haen, E., Ho, D. M., Takeuchi, H., Piras, M., Eap, C.-B., de Filippis, R., Homan, P., Kane, J. M., Roy, M.-A., Paulzen, M., & Schoretsanitis, G. (2023). Clozapine once- versus multiple-daily dosing: a two-center cross-sectional study, systematic review and meta-analysis European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 273, 1567–1578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-022-01542-1
- Homan, P., Schooler, N. R., Brunette, M. F., Rotondi, A., Ben-Zeev, D., Gottlieb, J. D., Mueser, K. T., Achtyes, E. D., Gingerich, S., Marcy, P., Meyer-Kalos, P., Hauser, M., John, M., Robinson, D. G., & Kane, J. M. (2023). Relapse prevention through health technology program reduces hospitalization in schizophrenia Psychological Medicine, 53, 4114–4120. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722000794
- Schijven, D., Postema, M. C., Fukunaga, M., Matsumoto, J., Miura, K., de Zwarte, S. M. C., van Haren, N. E. M., Cahn, W., Hulshoff Pol, H. E., Kahn, R. S., Ayesa-Arriola, R., de la Foz, V. O.-G., Tordesillas-Gutierrez, D., Vázquez-Bourgon, J., Crespo-Facorro, B., Alnæs, D., Dahl, A., Westlye, L. T., Agartz, I., … Francks, C. (2023). Large-scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, e2213880120. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.01.22271652
- Corona Hernández, H., Corcoran, C., Achim, A. M., de Boer, J. N., Boerma, T., Brederoo, S. G., Cecchi, G. A., Ciampelli, S., Elvevåg, B., Fusaroli, R., Giordano, S., Hauglid, M., van Hessen, A., Hinzen, W., Homan, P., de Kloet, S. F., Koops, S., Kuperberg, G. R., Maheshwari, K., … Palaniyappan, L. (2023). Natural Language Processing Markers for Psychosis and Other Psychiatric Disorders: Emerging Themes and Research Agenda From a Cross-Linguistic Workshop Schizophrenia Bulletin, 49, S86–S92. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac215
- Palaniyappan, L., Homan, P., & Alonso-Sanchez, M. F. (2023). Language Network Dysfunction and Formal Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Bulletin, 49, 486–497. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac159

2022
- Schoretsanitis, G., de Filippis, R., Brady, B. M., Homan, P., Suppes, T., & Kane, J. M. (2022). Prevalence of impaired kidney function in patients with long-term lithium treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis Bipolar Disorders, 24, 264–274. https://doi.org/10.1111/bdi.13154
- Reymann, S., Schoretsanitis, G., Egger, S. T., Mohonko, A., Kirschner, M., Vetter, S., Homan, P., Seifritz, E., & Burrer, A. (2022). Use of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Inpatients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder in an Academic Psychiatric Hospital in Switzerland Journal of Personalized Medicine, 12, 441. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12030441
- Brakowski, J., Manoliu, A., Homan, P., Bosch, O. G., Herdener, M., Seifritz, E., Kaiser, S., & Kirschner, M. (2022). Aberrant striatal coupling with default mode and central executive network relates to self-reported avolition and anhedonia in schizophrenia Journal of Psychiatric Research, 145, 263–275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.10.047

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