Alexandra Pitman is a Clinical Associate Professor in the UCL Division of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Her research interests are in the epidemiology of suicide and self-harm, the relationship between loneliness and suicidality, and in suicide prevention. Her clinical interests are in psychosocial interventions for people with suicidal thoughts in liaison, community, and in-patient settings. She completed her MSc in health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics, and her PhD at UCL on the impact of suicide bereavement. Together with Professor Sonia Johnson, she leads the UKRI-funded Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health research network (@UCL_Loneliness). She is also funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the UCL Institute of Mental Health to study influences on suicide and self-harm risk. She sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Psychiatry, and tweets in a personal capacity as @DrAPitman