Pedro G. Ferreira is an Assistant Researcher at Ipatimup/i3S (Portugal), where he has an FCT Investigator Starting grant. He develops research on computational biology in particular in the fields of cancer and population genomics. He has collaborated with several research groups and has been involved in different international consortia including ICGC-CLL, GEUVADIS or GTEx. He has intensive training in Bioinformatics and experience in genomics start-up environment where he has developed information systems for personal genomics data interpretation.