Dr Willian Da Silveira
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Lecturer
Biography
Dr. da Silveira is currently a Lecturer in Medical Genomics at the University of Salford and adjunct lecturer at the International Space University. He was formerly a co-head of the Space Omics Topical Team funded by the European Space Agency.
Dr. da Silveira has a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy-Biochemistry, a Master’s degree in Biosciences applied to Pharmacy, and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, obtained at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. After the completion of his PhD, he became a Research Fellow in Bioinformatics Analysis at the Centre for Genomic Medicine (CGM) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). There, he focused on Big Data analysis and Omics advances and started his collaboration with NASA Genelab. In 2019 he assumed the role of Research Fellow in Food System Biology at the Queen´s University Belfast (QUB) investigating the effect of food contaminants in gene expression networks and senescence in primary prostate cells. In 2022 he was part of the Class-2 of the NASA STAR training program.
In the last 5 years he has established himself as an internationally recognised researcher, working in 4 different countries (Brazil, France, USA and the UK) and being the lead researcher of a collaborative project with NASA that culminated in CELL as the cover of the edition of November of 2020. NASA considered these results to be ground-breaking and the article received a worldwide coverage from 197 media outlets from 33 countries of 6 continents, and it was evaluated to be on the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.
Areas of Research
Genomics, Molecular Genetics, Medical Genetics, Space Biology, Ageing and Cancer
Qualifications
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Ph.D. degree in Medical Sciences
2011 - 2015 -
Master’s degree in Biosciences applied to Pharmacy
2009 - 2011 -
Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy-Biochemistry
2004 - 2008