Paulo Rodrigues-Santos is the Head of Research and Science Communication at the Institute of Immunology, Invited Assistant at the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the Immunology and Oncology Laboratory of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (Portugal). He worked on Transplantation Immunobiology as Head of the Functional Genomics Laboratory at the Center for Histocompatibility of the Centre (Coimbra, Portugal). PRS was Chair of the Education Committee of the European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI), Board Member of the European Complement Network (ECN) and Vice-President of the Portuguese Society for Immunology (SPI). Currently, PRS is the President of the Supervisory Board of SPI (2024-2027). He is Founder and Coordinator of the Portuguese Group of Immuno-Oncology (gpI-O), a joint working group of the Portuguese Society for Oncology (SPO) and the Portuguese Society for Immunology (SPI). PRS is an Editorial Board Member of Discover Immunity, an Associate Editor for Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy at Frontiers in Immunology and Frontiers in Oncology; an Associate Editor for Immunogenetics at Frontiers in Genetics; an Associate Editor for Aging and the Immune System at Frontiers in Aging; and a Topical Advisory Panel member of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.