Marco G. Alves is a Professor at the Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro. He heads a research group focused on Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Male Reproduction. He mainly works on male reproductive biology, metabolic modulation, obesity, and physio-pathological causes of subfertility or infertility. His main line of research is devoted to the study of metabolic cooperation in spermatogenesis, metabolic-related infertility, particularly due to diabetes and obesity, and the mechanisms responsible for such phenomena. He was conferred his LSc degree in Biology in 2005 at the University of Aveiro. In 2011, he was conferred a PhD degree in Biochemistry, a branch of bioenergetics at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (FCTUC). In 2011, he started a Post-Doctoral at the University of Beira Interior (Health Sciences Research Centre) and the University of Coimbra (Department of Life Sciences). Later, he moved to the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto (2016), where he was hired as an Assistant Researcher. His research has been awarded several national and international prizes and grants, including competitive international funds. Since March 2016, he has been the Principal Investigator of one major grant from FCT to study obesity-related dysfunction in the male reproductive system.