Dr Ping Qin is a Professor at the National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention, University of Oslo in Norway, and leader of the research group for register-based study on suicide and deliberate self-harm. She is also a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Public Health, Shandong University in China. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the National Center for Register-based Research, Aarhus University in Denmark and earned her PhD there in 2002.

Professor Qin is a passionate advocate of rigorous research in Suicidology and has devoted her professional life to studying suicidal behavior and mental health for 30 years. Her primary research interest has been into quantitative investigation of the contextual effect of multifactorial exposures on risk for suicide and suicidal behavior. She has led a range of large-scale research projects funded by various funding bodies in Denmark, USA, China and Norway. Professor Qin has published more than 130 research articles and book chapters about suicide and suicidal behavior in the context of socio-economic disadvantages, physical and psychiatric illnesses, life stresses as well as biological and genetic vulnerabilities.

Professor Qin volunteers her time extensively. She evaluates grant applications for a number of research foundations and assesses manuscripts for more than 80 academic journals. She was a Vice President of IASP and a co-chair of the 2021 and 2023 IASR/AFSP International Summits for Suicide Research, and has been on the scientific committee of many international conferences.