Dr. Nelson G. M. Gomes (PharmD) earned his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Porto in 2014. He then received a postdoctoral grant and moved to Kasetsart University in Thailand to continue his research on the discovery of bioactive from marine-derived fungi. In 2016, as a postdoctoral researcher at REQUIMTE/LAQV, he initiated a new research line aiming to identify bioactives in plants from West Africa and Southeast Asia to feed R&D pipelines on pharmaceutical and nutraceutical development through an ethnopharmacological approach. Currently, he serves as a research associate at REQUIMTE/LAQV and holds positions as an invited assistant professor at the University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS/CESPU, Portugal) and as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Science at Kasetsart University (Thailand). Dr. Gomes has authored over 45 peer-reviewed publications in Chemistry, Drug Discovery, and Pharmacology and is frequently invited to peer review for various journals, including Marine Drugs, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Phytomedicine, Food Research International and Cancer.