instruments, such as Structured Clinical Interview for Mental Disorders (SKID) and Computer-aided International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). With over 840 (2018) peer review publications, he has been awarded the status of “Highly Cited” in Web of Science since the late 90's and is listed by Thomson Reuters among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds (2015). Allegations of data fabrication and investigation In 2019, Buzzfeed News Germany published allegations that Wittchen had ordered junior colleagues to fabricate data in a 2016–2018 survey of German psychiatric facilities. In response, Technische Universität Dresden launched a two-year investigation. The investigatory commission's report indicated that Wittchen had ordered colleagues to fabricate data for 20 (of 93) facilities surveyed in the study, and had afterwards sought to conceal the manipulation by altering documents and intimidating whistleblowers and university administrators. The report also detailed an allegation that Wittchen had employed his daughter in the project for two years, though she was never witnessed working on the project. Following the report, Wittchen's contract with Ludwig Maximilian University was suspended. As of April 2021, Technische Universität Dresden is pursuing further investigations, and the Dresden public prosecutor's office has also launched an inquiry. Memberships Wittchen is or has been a speaker and principal investigator of many large-scale national, EU and international research programs (e.g. BMBF, ASAT, Panicnet), DETECT, GEPAD, MentDis65+, ROAMER, World Mental Health Survey, ), WMH, NCS. He has also been a Task Force Member der APA-DSM-5 Commission for Anxiety Disorders and an Executive Council Member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and a Task Force Member of the European Brain Council (EBC) “Size, burden and cost of disorders of the brain in Europe”, and is Fellow of ECNP and the American Psychological Society (APS]. From 2012 to 2017, he has been a member of Senate of Technische Universität Dresden, has been a Honorary Professor for psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich and an Honorary Professor for epidemiology and public health at Miami University, Miller School of Medicine, USA. Publications Prof. Wittchern ranks as one of the most cited scientists worldwide (Web of Science status: Highly cited, with 892 publications, H-index 117, 64.159 citations). His publications include German and English-language books as editor and author on epidemiology and treatment of mental disorders. Wittchen is author and publisher of books (both in German and in English) on epidemiology and treatment of mental disorders as well as of more than 500 peer-reviewed