Prof. Dr. Sebastian Olbrich has been Chief of the Centre for Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy of the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich since 2021. Sebastian Olbrich is active in national and international research organizations serving as Founding Member of the Swiss Society of Interventional Psychiatry (SGIP-SSPI) and as President of the International Pharmaco-EEG Society for Preclinical and Clinical Electrophysiological Brain Research (IPEG). 

Sebastian Olbrich earned his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees from the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics of the University of Leipzig, Germany in 2011 and 2014, respectively before completing his rehabilitation at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, qualifying as Deputy Chief of the Center for Social Psychiatry in 2017. His expertise concerns electrophysiological research and predictive biomarkers in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. He is interested in understanding and studying the associations between electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns and ongoing neuronal activity. In incorporating electroencephalogram (EEG) and cutting-edge technologies such as Deep Learning approaches in his studies, he identified its role as a reliable diagnostic marker. Building on this, he seeks to show that EEG can be used as the basis for developing more efficacious treatments of psychiatric diseases. He has multiple publications on the predictive power of EEG markers and has particular interests in translating research findings on suicide prevention to the clinic. The main focus of his past and current work is to feed into improved and novel treatment therapies of psychiatric diseases.