Armando Almeida, PhD, is an Associate Professor with tenure at the School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, where he is also a Principal Research Scientist. He holds a PhD in Human Biology (2000), with a specialization in pain, from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. His research focuses on the neurobiology of acute and chronic pain, particularly the neuronal circuits underlying descending pain modulation, pain facilitation, and the transition from acute to chronic pain. His work has contributed to the characterization of the medullary dorsal reticular nucleus as a major pronociceptive component of the endogenous pain control system. His broader research interests include the interaction between pain, emotional and cognitive processes, chronic stress, ageing, neuroplasticity, postsurgical pain, trigeminal neuralgia, and non-pharmacological pain therapies. He has supervised several doctoral, postdoctoral, and master’s research projects and has coordinated multiple national and internationally funded studies. He has authored more than 110 scientific publications and book chapters and has an h-index of 36 in Scopus. Armando Almeida is Academic Editor for PLOS ONE, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience and Frontiers in Pain Research, and Editor-in-Chief of DOR, the scientific journal of the Portuguese Association for the Study of Pain.