Oliver Tüscher is professor of clinical resilience research and neuropsychiatry at the German Resilience Center and the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz. After studying human medicine at the universities of Bochum, Heidelberg, Tulane University New Orleans, and Cornell University, New York and completing an MD/PhD doctoral program in cellular neurobiology, he trained as a neurologist, psychiatrist, and clinical neuroscientist at the universities of Hamburg, Cornell University, and Freiburg. His scientific work focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of self-regulation as a central mechanism of both mental illness and resilience to mental disorders.