Bio

About Gabriele Torino

Gabriele Torino is a licensed clinical psychologist and research fellow in suicidology. His work brings together clinical, neurobiological, and computational perspectives on suicidal thoughts and behaviors, with the aim of improving how suicide risk is understood, assessed, and prevented.

He received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pavia in 2021 and his M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Catholic University of Milan in 2023, both awarded Cum Laude. His undergraduate thesis examined the ideation-to-action framework in suicidology, with particular attention to the Three-Step Theory of suicide. His master’s thesis concerned the needs for care of residents with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, developed within the DIAPASON study. In 2022 he also completed an intensive graduate program in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University, having been awarded an academic merit scholarship.

During his studies at the University of Pavia he worked as a research assistant at the Italian Laboratory for Gifted Children and Adolescents (LabTalento), in the Department of Nervous System and Behavior Sciences, where he led thematic workshops and activities aimed at improving the socio-relational skills of gifted children and adolescents, and contributed to studies on giftedness, bullying, and psychosocial development.

From 2024 to 2026 he was a research fellow at the University of Milan, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, contributing to multidisciplinary clinical and neuroimaging studies and to the development of computational models for the prediction of psychiatric outcomes. Since 2026 he has been a research fellow in the Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan, where he also carries out clinical activity, including psychological assessment and clinical interviewing, and coordinates research projects as principal investigator, working on grant proposals, statistical analyses, and scientific manuscripts.

His primary research interest remains suicidology: the mechanisms underlying the transition from suicidal ideation to action, the neurobiological correlates of suicidal and self-injurious behaviors, and the motivations and functions that distinguish non-suicidal self-injury from suicidal behaviors. He also works on the relationship between physical disease and suicide-related outcomes, and on the development of tools that make risk assessment more precise and more usable in clinical practice.