Albino J. Oliveira Maia, MD, MPH, PhD. Albino J. Oliveira Maia trained in medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, and then did doctoral and post-doctoral work in Neuroscience at Duke University and the Champalimaud Foundation, and completed a master’s degree in public health at Harvard University. After academic training, Albino specialized in Psychiatry and worked as a Psychiatrist in Lisbon. He is currently Director of the Neuropsychiatry Unit at the Champalimaud Clinical Center, Director of the Digital Neurotherapeutics Centre at the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology, PI at the Neuroscience of Disease Programme, and professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at NOVA Medical School in Lisbon. Albino is also coordinator of the Psychiatry Working Group at the Office for the National Exam for Access to Specialty Training (Portugal), President-elect of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health, President of the Scientific Council for the Portuguese OCD Foundation and President of the Ethics Committee at the Institute for Addictive Behaviors and Addictions.

Luisa Pinto (PhD) has graduated in Biochemistry by the University of Coimbra and performed an internship at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) on therapeutic tools for Parkinson’s Disease. She obtained a PhD in Neurosciences by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) in 2008, under the supervision of Dr. Magdalena Goetz, and did then post-doctoral research in the lab of Prof. Nuno Sousa, at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho (Portugal). She is currently a Principal Investigator with tenure and team coordinator of the “Brain circuits and neuron-glia adaptations” thematic line at ICVS, focusing on novel therapeutics for Depression and Neurodegenerative Disorders. She is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Minho, and member of the Direction Board of ICVS. Pinto is CEO of a start-up company “BNML – Behavioural & Molecular Lab”. She authored and co-authored over 90 scientific publications, cited above 3900 times.