Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, MD., MPH., Ph.D., 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, Principal Investigator at Champalimaud Research 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), Vice-president 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 Behaviours and Addictions.