Dr de Magalhaes graduated in Microbiology in 1999 from the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia in his hometown of Porto, Portugal, and then obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Namur in Belgium. Following a postdoc with genomics pioneer Prof George Church at Harvard Medical School, in 2008 Dr de Magalhaes was recruited to the University of Liverpool where he leads the Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group. His lab studies the ageing process and how we can manipulate it to fend off age-related diseases and improve human health. He is Associate Professor at the University of Liverpool, England, where he studies ageing and longevity at the genetic level, and he is also an affiliate Principal Investigator in the Neuroendocrinology and Aging Group at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Dr de Magalhães have been published in several prestigious academic journals, such as Nature and Cell. As part of his efforts against ageing, Dr. de Magalhães runs the website senescence.info, where he advocates for the defeat of aging, answers to common objections, and provides comprehensive information on the biology of ageing, genomics, and ways everyone can help to fight ageing, including advice on how to become a biogerontologist. One of João’s greatest projects is the Human Ageing Genomic Resources database, or HAGR, intended as a tool to help other researchers who study the genetics of human aging.