Invited Speaker

João Carneiro

João Carneiro is a data scientist, computational researcher, and bioinformatician with a robust academic background and extensive experience in developing and deploying advanced analytics solutions. He holds a degree in Biology and a Master's in Forensic Genetics from the University of Porto (UP), where he also completed his PhD in 2013 at Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP). His doctoral thesis explored molecular dynamics simulations of non-B DNA conformations.

Following his PhD, João was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in 2014 to investigate the influence of non-B DNA conformations on mitochondrial DNA rearrangements at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR). He subsequently held positions as a contracted researcher at CIIMAR under DL57/2016, researcher at the University of Minho, and researcher at CIIMAR within the BlueBio4Future team.

João currently serves as Assistant Researcher at the Chair in Microbial Evolution at the Centre of Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF), Catholic University of Portugal (UCP). In this role, he focuses on microbial evolution while applying machine learning and data science to bioinformatics and genetics. He develops and maintains online databases for the Portuguese distributed infrastructure for biological data, including resources tailored for machine learning applications. His recent work centers on integrating AI prompts and generative models to accelerate biological discovery, evolutionary insights, and data analysis.