Vítor Costa obtained a Biochemistry degree at Universidade do Porto and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto (ICBAS, UP). He currently holds a position as Associate Professor at ICBAS-UP and leads the Yeast Signalling Networks group at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde i3S. Using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism, his research focuses on the role of bioactive sphingolipids and nutrient signalling in the regulation of organelle function, redox homeostasis, and autophagy, and how deregulation of these signalling networks impacts aging and cell death in the context of yeast models of human disease, namely Niemann Pick type C and seipinopathy. Vítor Costa has co-authored 67 publications with 2865 citations (h-index 29) and 3 book chapters, and supervised 6 Post-docs, 9 PhD students and 20 Master students. He is Assistant Director of the first degree in Biochemistry (FCUP/ICBAS), member of the scientific committee of the Doctoral Program in Molecular and Cell Biology (ICBAS/FCUP) and of the Master's degree in Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (ICBAS/FCUP), a member of the editorial board of Microbial Cell, and the president of the Portuguese Biochemical Society.