Guilherme Oliveira holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Texas A&M, with postdoctoral studies in genomics and bioinformatics at York University (England) and the Pasteur Institute (France). Since 2020 he has been scientific director of ITV DS, where he has worked since 2015, initially as leader of the Environmental Genomics group. He was a full researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Belo Horizonte, a member of the governing body of the International Society of Computational Biology, and president of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, from which he won the Merit Recognition Award for services to the community and education. His work has received funding from Brazilian and international agencies. He is dedicated to research into the genetics and genomics of Amazonian biodiversity with a view to conservation and species of economic interest. During his career, he published more than 270 scientific papers and mentored more than 110 young scientists.