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Professor Rory O'Connor completed his PhD at Queen's University Belfast in 1997 and has since moved to Scotland, joining the University of Glasgow in July 2013 as Professor of Health Psychology. He is the Director of the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory and leads the Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group. His research interests focus on understanding self-regulation processes and their impact on mental health outcomes. O'Connor has served as the President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and was the Past President of the International Academy of Suicide Research. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022. He is also involved with several mental health charities, and he contributes to multiple editorial boards in the field. His research has received numerous accolades, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's 2023 Research Award and the BPS 2022 Popular Science Book Award for his work titled 'The Darkest People Die by Suicide'. His overarching aim is to enhance understanding of the etiology of wellbeing and distress through research that applies theoretical models across psychological and biomedical sciences.