Ovidiu Popa-Velea is Associate Professor in Medical Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy (CDUMP) in Bucharest, Romania. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine and of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences in Bucharest. He earned an MA degree at the New School University in New York (2003) as a Fulbright Alumnus. His academic formation also includes an MA in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (2010) and a Ph.D. in Medicine (2008). He has participated in the FP7 OPCARE9 program, financed by the EU, dedicated to studying psychological and psychosocial care in palliative care patients (2008- 2011). He was an expert or member of the research team in three other research projects and has been the director of the Erasmus+ project BENDiT-EU (2020-2023), dedicated to academic burnout. He has published research papers on burnout, academic stress, coping mechanisms, and adherence and was the editor of the first East-European comprehensive textbook of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, published in English (2013). Since 2011, he has been the Head of the Department of Medical Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine, CDUMP, Bucharest.