Borges Vítor

- PhD in Microbial Genomics in 2006; - Head of the Research Unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Health, Portugal; - Head of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Health; - Research field: microbial genomics, evolution, bioinformatics, microbiology. - More than 120 published papers, including in New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine and Nature Microbiology; - Supervised 11 PhD students; - Frequent member of the evaluation panel of Grants funded by International organisms such as the European Food Safety Authority, the European Research Era, the Wellcome Trust and the German Fed Min of Education and Research.