Alessandra Borsini is a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

Her research interest focuses on the role of inflammation and stress on brain neurogenic alterations, particularly in the context of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, and on the ability of psychotropic, anti-inflammatory and nutrition-based treatments to prevent such alterations.

She has been a member of the MRC Immunopsychiatry Consortium, of the AMBROSIAC ERA-NET/MRC consortium, and of the ECNP Immuno-Neuropsychiatry Network. She has received various awards, including the Psychoneuroimmunology Award, from the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRs), the Preclinical Psychopharmacology Award from the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP), and has been nominated for the IoPPN Collaborative Research Excellence Award.

She has published over 70 papers, with a current H-index of 28, and has been recipient of both national and international research grants from the MRC, Wellcome Trust, NIHR BRC, European Commission and Rosetrees Trust. She is part of the Editorial Board of several journals, including Brain Behaviour and Immunity, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychiatry, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Psychiatric Research, Nutritional Neuroscience, Psychosomatic Medicine, Scientific Reports and Associate Editor for Brain Behaviour and Immunity-Health and Nutritional Psychiatry. She has been formal supervisor of 6 PhD students so far.