Luis Ruano is a Neurology clinical fellow at the Entre o Douro e Vouga Hospital Center since 2016, where he is the head of the Research and Clinical Trials Unit and the Cognition and Dementia Unit He is an assistant professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto since 2017. He is an integrated researcher at the Epidemiology Research Unit of the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto since 2014. He was born in 1984 in Bragança, Portugal. He finished his medical degree at the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Porto in 2008. In 2012 he obtained a Master's degree in Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, with the dissertation "The epidemiology of hereditary ataxias and spastic paraparesis in Portugal", under the supervision of Prof. Paula Coutinho and Prof. Carolina Silva. In 2017 he completed his PhD at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto with the thesis "Improving the understanding of cognitive impairment: Insights from cross-sectional and longitudinal assessment", under the supervision of Prof. Nuno Lunet, Prof. Vítor Tedim Cruz and Prof. Maria Pia Amato. He has published 45 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and co-authored about 20 oral presentations at international conferences and 50 at Portuguese conferences. He has participated as a researcher in 7 funded projects, 2 as principal investigator. His scientific interest is in understanding and modifying the natural history and the determinants of cognitive deterioration in neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and multiple sclerosis. He is currently working in the development of a new approaches for more sensitive and cost effective cognitive screening and monitoring, allowing for a timely diagnosis and improved management strategies for cognitive impairment.