1998 -High School degree at “Liceo Scientifico San Giovanni Bosco” with a score of 60/60

1998-2004 - Student at the School of Medicine of the University of Cagliari

2004 - Degree in Medicine with a score of 110/110 “magna cum laude”, with a thesis entitled “Drug Information Service: Importance in the diagnosis of the Adverse Drug Reaction disease and in the clinical management of drugs”, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

2008 - Specialization in Clinical Pharmacology with a score of 50/50 “magna cum laude”, with a thesis entitled “Lithium Salts: a pharmacogenetic study in a sample of Sardinian Bipolar patients”, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy  

2009 (February) - Medical Council of Canada Evaluating Examinations (MCCEE): passed (score: 262)

2012 - PhD in Neuroscience, with a thesis entitled “Genetic risk of suicidal behavior in bipolar-spectrum disorder: analysis of 737 pedigrees”, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.

2013 - Completion of four years of a clinical and research fellowship in Mood Disorders at the Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

2017 - Specialization in Psychiatry with a score of 50/50 “magna cum laude”, special mention and recommendation for publication, with a thesis entitled “Longitudinal assessment of peripheral brain-derived neurotrophic factor in a sample of Sardinian psychotic patients: analysis of the relationship with clinical and genetic variables”, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy  

Positions

1998-2002 - Medical Student, Section of Human Physiology, Department of Sciences Applied to Biosystems, University of Cagliari, Italy. Physiology of the smooth muscle (Supervisor Prof. Rino Mancinelli, PhD)

2002-2004 - Medical Student, Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Cagliari, Italy. Psychopharmacology and genetic basis of mood disorders (Supervisor Prof.Maria Del Zompo, MD) 

2004-2008 - Resident, Clinical Pharmacology Training program, Department of Neuroscience, University of Cagliari. Psychopharmacology, Genetic Basis of Mood disorders, Studies on Drug Response (Supervisor Prof. Maria Del Zompo, MD)

2008 (January-April) - Visiting scientist at Neurogenetics Section, Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Supervisors Prof. James L. Kennedy, MS, MD, FRCPC, FRSC and Prof. Vincenzo De Luca, MD, PhD)

2008 (November-June) - Clinical Pharmacologist at Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Neurosciences (now Department of Biomedical Sciences), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.

2009-2012 - PhD Student in Neuroscience, Department of Neurosciences (now Department of Biomedical Sciences), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.

2009-2010 - Sobey Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Supervisor Prof. Martin Alda, MD, FRCPC)

2010-2013 - Clinical Research Fellow in Mood Disorders at the Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Supervisor Prof. Martin Alda, MD, FRCPC)

2012 (July-present) - Adjunct assistant professor of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2013-2017 - Resident, Psychiatry Training program, Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy (Supervisor: Prof. Bernardo Carpiniello, MD)

2014 (July-present) - Academic Editor, Medicine, Wolters Kluwer Health

2014 (November-present) - Associate Editor, Neuroscience Letters, Elsevier

2015 (October-present) - Associate Editor, BMC Psychiatry, Biomed central

2015 (October-present) - Statistical Editor, Frontiers in Pharmacology

2016 (October-present) - Review Editor, Frontiers in Genetics

2016 (December-present) - International Group for The Study of Lithium Treated Patients

2016 (November-present) -  European College of Neuropsychopharmacology - Bipolar Network

2017 (January-present) - Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychiatry

2017 (November-present) - Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Pharmacology

2017 (October)-2019 (June) - Post-doctoral fellow in Psychiatry, University of Cagliari

2018 (January-present) - Reviews Editor, Psychiatric Genetics

2018 (March-present) - National habilitation as associate professor of psychiatry

2018 (April-present) - Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

2018 (October-present) - Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychiatry 

2019 (February-present) - Member of the Editorial Board of Medicina

2019 (March-present) - Member of the Editorial Board of Real-World Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology

2019 (October-present) - European College of Neuropsychopharmacology – Resilience Thematic Network Group

2019 (December -present) - Secrtetary of the Prevention of Severe Mental Disorder Network of the European Brain Research Area (EBRA) chaired by Ole A. Andreassen and Paolo Fusar Poli

2020 (February- present) - Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience

2020 (April-present) - Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neurodegeneration

2020 (May-present) - Editorial Board Member, Psychiatry International (MDPI)

2020 (September-present) - Editorial Board Member, Future Pharmacology (MDPI)

2021 (September-present) - Section Editor-in-Chief, Medicina (MDPI)

2022 (January- present) - National habilitation as full professor of psychiatry