André Gomes-dos-Santos graduated in Applied Biology in 2015 (Minho University), where he also obtained a Master’s degree in Ecology (2017). He concluded his PhD in Biology in 2023 (Porto University), during which he specialized in bioinformatics focused on whole genome assembly, phylogenomics, population genomics, and big data management. He has over 30 ISI-indexed publications in peer-review journals with nearly 100 different co-authors from 25 countries. His focus of research is the application of genomic sequencing outputs, implemented through computational biology, to understand the evolutionary dynamics and adaptations of freshwater mussels and other aquatic organisms.
