Dr. Gomes has both Brazilian and American citizenship. He was born and raised in Sao Paulo (Brazil), where he completed both his undergraduate degree (2004) and a master’s degree (2008) with graduate research in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Before undertaking doctoral research, Dr. Gomes spent several years working at AstraZeneca. He then moved to the University of Queensland (Australia) to complete his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (2016). During his Ph.D., Dr. Gomes was a visiting scientist at the Saarland University (Germany). After graduation, Dr. Gomes moved to the U.S., where he held postdoctoral positions in two world-renowned proteomics labs: first with Dr. Catherine Fenselau at the University of Maryland (2017–2018) and with Dr. John R. Yates, III at Scripps Research (2018–2023). He joined VCU as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2023.