Anaesthesiologist with focused interest in pharmacology, physiology, neuroanaesthesia, pain and patient safety. Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia at the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Coimbra and founder member of the Clinical Research Section of the Portuguese Society of Anaesthesiology. PhD Candidate at the Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), in the field of Neuroscience, focusing on the study of neuropsychopharmacology and neuronal correlates of psychedelics, namely DMT and ayahuasca.