Alvaro Barrera is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, and Consultant Psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS FT. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has received three awards for improving safety and sleep on inpatient wards, co-edited the Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry, and is interested in the descriptive psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience of severe mental health disorders. He supervises medical students, foundation doctors, as well as core and advanced psychiatry trainees at Oxford.