Nuno Sousa (MD, PhD) is Full Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Minho. Nuno Sousa, together with a small group of other leaders, was able to create this highly respect medical school, one of the most well-known and respected internationally, from scratch after he moved from U. Porto to U. Minho in 2001. Nuno Sousa serves at several medical education and medical assessment advisory boards (NBME, EuroBMA). He is Visiting Professor at Upstate Medical University, NY. He is a NeuroRadiologist. Presently, he is the Director of the Clinical Academic Center at Hospital de Braga and of the Digital Medical Center P5. He is a researcher of the Neuroscience Research Domain, which integrates the newly formed (in 2011) Portuguese Government Associate Laboratory (LA) ICVS/3B´s, the first LA totally based at U. Minho. His research main interests are focused in the establishment of functional and structural correlations mediated by stress and its implications in neuropsychiatric disorders. Nuno Sousa coordinates several national and international scientific projects, including work-packages in some European initiatives in the field of neuroscience. In addition to academic merits, Nuno Sousa serves on several science policy and advisory board positions, and as an Ad hoc reviewer for various neuroscience journal and international funding organizations. He has published more than 500 papers, been cited more than 20000 and has a H-factor of 79. He is one of the 1% most influent researchers according to a recent study in PlosBiology. Nuno Sousa was the President of the School of Medicine, University of Minho (2017-2022). He was President of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences (2011-2015). He was the President of the Scientific Council of Life and Health Sciences of FCT (Portuguese Science Foundation) (2015-2018).?

He is a member of Bial Foundation. He has received awards and honours for his research accomplishments of which the Gold Medal from the Portuguese Ministry of Health merits a specific mention.?