Bruno Montezano is a master in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2023), computer technician from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (2015) and psychologist (CRP 07/38086) graduated from the Catholic University of Pelotas in 2021. He is currently a PhD student at the Graduate Program in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and works as a researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA/UFRGS).
He has a scholarship from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in the Academic Excellence Program (Proex). Bruno Montezano has extensive experience in quantitative data analysis and statistical computing, with expertise in the areas of machine learning and mental health outcomes.
He has published in several high-impact psychiatry focused scientific journals such as The Lancet. He is director and member of the AlliaNCE (Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience) research group coordinated by Dr. Ives Cavalcante Passos. In May 2023, he received the Mitacs Globalink Research Award to be funded for an internship at McMaster University in Canada to work on the interface between women’s mental health and machine learning. Since June 2023, he has also served as an assistant editor at the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry. In the second semester of 2023, he presented the results of his dissertation on the interface between bipolar disorder and artificial intelligence techniques at the 25th Annual Conference of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) in Chicago (USA).