Tiago Gil Oliveira is Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, at University of Minho; research line coordinator at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS); neuroradiologist at Hospital de Braga; and President of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience. He was a student in the joint Minho MD/PhD program with Columbia University, NYC, USA. He carried out his PhD studies at Columbia University, between 2007 and 2010, and MD studies at University of Minho. While studying the role of lipid signaling in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis, he showed that the ablation of the lipid-modulating enzyme, phospholipase D2, was protective in different Alzheimer’s disease models. He then expanded his research interests to the study of mood disorders and brain plasticity mechanisms. In parallel with his academic work, he continued his medical career. He is now using lipidomic approaches together with brain magnetic resonance imaging to study neurodegenerative disorders.