Nuno S. Osório graduated in Applied Biology at the University of Minho in 2003. He started his research work at Wageningen University, Holland, where he did an internship on the study of virulence factors of pathogenic microorganisms with Prof. Willem van Schaik. In 2009, he concluded his PhD at the University of Minho, Portugal, under the supervision of Prof. Fernando Rodrigues. His doctoral research was developed in part as a Research Fellow at the Rochester University Medical Center, USA. Nuno's PhD work advanced the knowledge on the pathological mechanisms of Batten disease going from microbial to animal model systems (Osório et al. Mol. Bio. Cell. 2007). He went then to do a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Margarida Saraiva and obtained pioneering evidence regarding the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Osório et al. Mol. Biol. Evo. 2013). In 2015, he got an Assistant Investigator position at ICVS/3B's Government Associate Laboratory and afterwords co-created and become a PI in the research team (PEvoGen) focusing on the study of the genetic diversity and evolution of human pathogens. In all career, Nuno published more than 40 international peer-reviewed papers, including several publications in top-tier journals (Osório et al. Lancet Infect. Dis. 2021, Thomson-Luque et al. Nat. Commun. 2021, Andrade et al. Nat. Med. 2020, Gonçalves et al. Nat. Commun. 2020, Sousa et al. Nat Commun. 2020). He volunteered as Editor in international scientific journals and is regularly invited to review scientific articles. He also evaluates research project grants for the Graduate Women in Science Fellowship Program. To date, he successfully supervised 1 postdoctoral fellow, 2 PhD students, 12 MSc students and currently mentors 4 PhD and 2 MSc students. He integrated more than 20 funded research projects, 5 as responsible researcher. He was invited more than 15 times as arguer in Academic Jury for PhD and MSc degrees at different Portuguese Universities. He has 16 years of experience in teaching at the University level, yearly coordinates the "Bioinformatics in Health Sciences" international postgraduate course at University of Minho and was teaching staff in the EMBO Practical Course "Single Cell Genomics: get started!". He was also invited to lecture in teaching sessions of Bioinformatics Masters in other Portuguese universities and post-graduate courses in developing countries. He received 12 awards or distinctions, including "Best Article" of the Portuguese Society of Immunology (2021), the "Young Researcher Award" from the Portuguese Society of Microbiology (2010), or the "Academic Merit Award" from the University of Minho (2003). In the area of innovation and entrepreneurship, he received the award for "Best Business Idea of the Year" from the Business Innovation Centre of Minho (2006) and co-founded the technology-based spinoff Petridish Software (2010), which develops laborders.com and has clients in Portugal and internationally. In 2011, he participated in UTEN Portugal (University Technology Enterprise Network) and received training in Technology Transfer at the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas, United States of America. Nuno is a proud father of an ten-year-old boy that also loves scientific questions and discoveries.