António Marcos Ramos has a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science (1998) and a Master’ degree in Animal Production (2002), from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal). He then obtained his PhD degree in Animal Breeding and Genetics, as well as a minor in Statistics, from Iowa State University (United States), in 2006. He continued his career in the USA at Michigan State University, which was followed by a move to the Netherlands in 2008, when he joined Wageningen University as a Marie Curie Fellow. His work at Wageningen was one of the first studies where next-generation sequencing was massively used to detect SNPs in the pig genome, for the subsequent development of the porcine SNP genotyping chip. Before returning to Portugal he joined Keygene, where he was involved in several international projects involving plant bioinformatics and biotechnology. Since January 2015 he is principal investigator at CEBAL (Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo), where he leads the Animal Genomics and Bioinformatics group, working on projects focusing mainly on cork oak, Iberian pigs and other indigenous breeds of livestock, and other Mediterranean plant species. His research interests are focused on animal and plant breeding, genetics and genomics, including bioinformatics, biostatistics and molecular genetics. The ultimate goal is to combine biological and bioinformatics tools to decipher the genetic regulation of complex traits of economic importance in animals and plants.