Santiago Castiello de Obeso, DPhil, postdoctoral associate in psychiatry, has been chosen to receive an Early Career Award from the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS).
The award will be presented at the 2026 SIRS Congress to be held in Florence, Italy on March 25-29.
As an honoree, Castiello will receive free registration to the congress and a stipend to offset travel costs.
The program is intended to sponsor individuals who, through their research, teaching, or clinical activities, have demonstrated professional and scientific interest in the field of schizophrenia research. Applicants must be early career researchers.
Castiello focuses on modeling behavior to investigate the computational mechanisms underlying delusions, schizotypy, and paranoia. His background in computational psychiatry drives his interest in a diverse range of learning models (from Reinforcement and Bayesian learning to Neural Nets).
Through his personal project, ALANN (named in honor of Yale professor Allan R. Wagner), he implements computational models to better understand the fundamental principles of behavior in living agents.