Zoom-In on Champalimaud: Ana Saraiva Ayash

Zoom-In on Champalimaud: Gonçalo Cotovio

I graduated from NOVA Medical School in 2014, before joining the Champalimaud Foundation’s Neuropsychiatry Unit (NPU) as a research intern the following year. Principally, I have been working on secondary bipolar disorder neuroimaging. 

Since then, I have been fortunate enough to train and work in a variety of institutions, including Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Harvard Medical School, and since 2017 I have been completing my PhD through a FCT scholarship at the NPU.

Mr. P. started to be followed at the smoking cessation consultation of the Champalimaud Foundation in mid-2018. He had been a smoker for 33 years, and in 2018, he smoked around one pack of cigarettes a day. His first attempt to quit failed, but Mr. P. never quit the consultation and never gave up on quitting smoking. He finally achieved his goal in mid-2020 through a multidisciplinary approach (including psychology and psychiatry consultations) – and, to this day, has never smoked again.

Zoom-In on Champalimaud: Charlotte (Charlie) Rosher

Before entering the Champalimaud Foundation, I studied Evolutionary Biology on a Master’s programme that rotated around universities in Uppsala (Sweden), Montpellier (France), Munich (Germany) and Boston (USA). I love seeing the world through the lens of evolution but I have always been focussed in some way on brains and behaviour. Now I am investigating emotions and defensive behaviours for my PhD in the Behavioural Neuroscience lab (Moita lab).