**Marta Torrens**

Marta Torrens, MD, PhD, Specialist in Psychiatry, Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University Vic-Central de Catalunya and University Autonoma de Barcelona. Director of the Addiction ` Research Group at IMIM-Hospital del Mar Research Institut, Barcelona. Elected member of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and the Informal Scientific Network of UNODC and WHO. She is also is an executive member of the Dual Pathology and Addiction Psychiatry section of the WPA. In research, her main areas of interest are the assessment and treatment of substance addictions, dual disorders, and the gender perspective in addictions. The results of her research have been published in the main specialized journals with an h-index of 48. She has received several international and national awards, including "Honorary Member" of the Spanish Society of Dual Pathology (2013) and the EUFAS European Addiction Research Award 2020.
