Psychologist and mental health researcher
Bruno Montezano is a psychologist (CRP 07/38086) with a master's degree in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), working in Porto Alegre, Brazil. His research applies computational methods and machine learning to mental health.
About
He is a PhD candidate at UFRGS and a researcher at the Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory and Clinical Research Center of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. He holds training in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies from INTCognitivas and has extensive experience in quantitative data analysis and statistical computing.
He has published in several high-impact psychiatry journals and is a member of the AlliaNCE (Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience) research group. He received a Mitacs Globalink Research Award (McMaster University, Canada, 2023), served as assistant editor of the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (2023–2025), and won the FAMED 2024 Best Dissertation award at UFRGS.
Work
In 2025 he co-founded Método Science, which offers training and solutions in data analysis and health research. Since 2023 he has worked as a scientific consultant in digital health for the international pharmaceutical industry.