João Filipe Oliveira (PhD) graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2004 from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Porto. He earned his PhD in 2009 from the Medical Faculty at the University of Leipzig in Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Illes.

João Filipe Oliveira received a Marie Curie Fellowship to join the Institute of Health and Life Sciences Research at the University of Minho, where he is currently a Principal Investigator focusing on astrocytic involvement in circuit modulation and behavior, in both health and disease. As a PI, he has secured over 1.3 million euros to support his research team.

João Filipe Oliveira is the last/corresponding author on several scientific publications. He has delivered talks at national and international conferences (e.g., FENS, EuroGlia, ISN) and laboratories. He has established successful international collaborations and extensive supervision experience (1 postdoc, 5 PhD, and 3 MSc ongoing; 1 postdoc, 4 PhD, and 14 MSc completed). He is regularly invited to review grant proposals and manuscripts for research agencies and scientific journals.

João Filipe Oliveira is the coordinator of the Portuguese Glial Network and is a member of the Portuguese Society of Neuroscience, FENS, and SfN. He has been awarded research grants, fellowships, and contracts, including the DAAD PhD Scholarship (2005) and the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2011).