Anderson Santos is a computer scientist whose academic career is devoted to the application of Computational Methods to Biological and Genomic research. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) in 1995, an M.Sc. in Computer Science with emphasis on Artificial Intelligence from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from UFMG in 2012. His research focuses on using algorithms, software development, and data analysis to support biological discovery, particularly in genome assembly, annotation, and microbial genomics. He played a significant role in the assembly and annotation of the first genome project conducted entirely in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, focused on Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. In 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at UFMG’s Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Genetics, coordinating graduate students in computational analyses of bacterial genomes. Since 2013, he has been a professor at the Faculty of Computing of the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), teaching core Computer Science courses while supervising interdisciplinary research in Bioinformatics. He heads the Comp2Bio Laboratory, dedicated to training computer scientists for biological applications.