Dr Lopes is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Unit at Barts Heart Centre in London and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London (UCL). He obtained his MD from the University of Lisbon in 2001, completed his Cardiology training in 2009, and achieved his PhD in 2015 at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL.

Currently, Dr Lopes serves as a Clinical-Academic Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre, where he is dedicated to the study and treatment of cardiomyopathies, cardiogenetics, and cardiac MRI. He also holds the position of Honorary Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the Centre for Heart Muscle Disease, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL. Additionally, he is the Cardiology lead for the North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub, which is part of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service.

Dr Lopes's main clinical focus is on genetic cardiomyopathies, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. He also specialises in metabolic cardiomyopathies such as Fabry disease, cardiac involvement in neuromuscular conditions, and mitochondrial cardiomyopathy.

His major research interests include the discovery of new genetic causes of cardiomyopathy and the use of advanced imaging techniques in the construction of genotype-phenotype models. His work has been published in several high-impact journals, contributing significantly to the field of cardiovascular science.

Dr Lopes treats a range of conditions including cardiomyopathy/heart muscle disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, mitochondrial cardiomyopathy, metabolic cardiomyopathies, and cardiac involvement in neuromuscular conditions. He is also an expert in genetics, cardiogenetics, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.