João Queirós graduated in Veterinary Medicine at ICBAS - University of Porto, Portugal, in 2010, completed an MSc in Basic and Applied Research in Wildlife Resources at IREC - University of Castilla-La-Mancha, Spain, in 2012, and obtained his PhD in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution at the Faculty of Science - University of Porto, Portugal, in 2017. He is currently a junior researcher at BIOPOLIS, University of Porto. His main research interests are: i) studying the epidemiology of infectious diseases in wildlife species, with a particular focus on zoonoses; ii) understanding how population genetics of hosts shape their disease susceptibility/resistance/tolerance, using wildlife species as models; iii) developing eDNA-based tools to improve disease surveillance and monitoring; iv) conservation and management of wildlife species, with a particular focus on game and endangered species; v) development of integrated wildlife monitoring programs for early detection of emerging pathogens and elucidation of disease dynamics in nature, offering a proactive approach towards averting future pandemics within the One Health framework. He has participated in 20 competitive projects (6 European), is currently leading an FCT exploratory project and is participating in a 16-country consortium commissioned by EFSA to provide scientific advice and data on 'Wildlife and One Health: wildlife ecology, health surveillance and interaction with livestock, human populations and the environment'. He has experience in supervising students (11 undergraduates, 8 Masters and 3 PhD students), mentoring (5 foreign students who came to CIBIO under his supervision) and examining (4 MSc and 1 PhD). He has published more than 30 papers in SCI journals and reached almost 600 citations on Google scholar, with an overall i10 index 16 and i10 index 14 since 2019. Active reviewer for 22 scientific journals and more than 50 completed reviews.