Research Team

Professor AndreF. Carvalho received his medical degree from the Federal University of Ceará(Brazil). He had completed psychiatry residency at the University Foundation Mário Martins in Porto Alegre (Brazil). In 2005, he earned a doctorate degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).

He is currently associate professor of psychiatry at the Federal University of Ceará(Brazil). He leads the psychiatry research group in the same institution. His main areas of research interest are in the field of mood disorders and consultation-liaison psychiatry. He performs both basic and clinical research. His research efforts had resulted thus far in a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is a frequent reviewer of several periodicals.

His research has been funded by the ‘National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development’ (CNPq, Brazil), the ‘Fundaηγo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico and Tecnologico’ (FUNCAP, Brazil) and the Greek Ministry of Education-Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs (NSRF European Union) – ARISTEIA project.

He collaborates with several researchers abroad and had set the “Fortaleza-Ioannina coalition”, which is a strong collaborative effort between the medical schools of the University of Ioannina (Greece) and the Federal University of Ceará(Brazil).