Pedro Goncalves

I received a PhD in Molecular Pathology and Genetics from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 2014, and subsequently trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (USA, between 2015-2018) and Academia Sinica (Taiwan, between 2019-2020). I then joined the College of Medicine of the National Cheng Kung University, where I worked as a visiting assistant professor on a principal investigator role (Taiwan, between 2021-2023). I have recently (2024) started as a principal scientist at VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland, in the Industrial Biotechnology and Food division. My research interests concentrate on the exploration of fungal biodiversity, primarily at the interface of biology, genetics and evolution of filamentous fungi. I have been involved in various outreach activities, namely as a member of The Millet Project, an initiative devoted to agricultural sustainability and diet diversification. I have also served as a scientific consultant for the biotechnology industry.