Andreia Brandão has extensive experience in population genetics, bioinformatics, and cancer genomics, with a degree in Genetics and Biotechnology and an MSc in Technological Comparative Molecular Genetics. She has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, specializing in population genetics and bioinformatics, where she focused on the analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and genome-wide data to identify human genetic variation in Southeast Asian populations. She has worked on various research projects in different fields, including molecular genetics, microbiology, proteomics, population genomics, phylogenetics, and bioinformatics, at different universities and research institutions in Portugal, Spain, and the UK. She has several years of postdoctoral experience combining bioinformatics, population genetics, and cancer genomics at the Research Center of the Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (CI-IPOP). Here she has implemented a computational cancer genomics research line focusing on the analysis of both high-throughput genomics (targeted-NGS, whole-genome/exome) and transcriptomics data (RNAseq) from cancer patients to help characterize the inherited mutations associated with cancer predisposition, as well as the pattern of somatic genetic alterations that might have implications on tumor progression and therapy response. She often mentors MSc and PhD students, and actively participates in scientific meetings and workshops. Her in-depth experience in bioinformatics resources, large-scale databases (populational and pan-cancer), and data analysis and visualization (Python and R), has rendered 12 co-authorships in peer-reviewed Q1 journals (4 as first author) and several oral and poster communications in international meetings. She is on the Editorial Board of the Cancer Genetics and Oncogenomics (Frontiers in Genetics), as a Review Editor, and a Guest Editor at the open-access journal, Genes. Her contributions have been recognized by awards such as the Leonardo da Vinci mobility fellowship, FCT PhD fellowship, and recently the FCT Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) – Individual Call.