I completed my Bachelor in Medicine at Federal Fluminense University in Brazil in 2019. During my Bachelor's, I spent an exchange year in The Netherlands (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and I took a Medical Elective in Psychiatry in England (Oxford University, United Kingdom). After graduating, I worked as a general practitioner and in the frontline against COVID-19 in Brazil, both in the private and public health systems. I moved to the Netherlands to pursue a Research Master in Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology - Track Health Systems and Prevention at the University of Groningen. I am currently working as a PhD researcher at the University Center for Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen. My PhD thesis aims to improve the positioning of novel pharmacological agents in the treatment landscape of treatment-resistant depression.