José M. Ferro was born in Lisbon on 22 October 1951. He graduated in 1975 and received his PhD in Medicine in 1987 from the University of Lisbon. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences,London, Canada. He is currently Full Professor of Neurology and President of the "Conselho de Escola" of the School of Medicine at the University of Lisbon. He is Director of the Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health and Director of the Neurology Service at the Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte. He is the head of José Ferro Lab at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon. He was President of the European Neurological Society. He has authored or co-authored 309 papers published in international journals and 60 book chapters. His main area of research interest is cerebrovascular disease, with a focus on cerebral venous thrombosis, cryptogenic stroke and cognitive and psychiatric consequences of stroke. He is currently principal investigator of a research project regarding precision medicine in stroke - PRECISE-STROKE.