PhD Student at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal. Sérgio Silva, a dedicated researcher with a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, School of Agriculture, Portugal, has completed his international mobility and secured funding for his PhD. He is now a PhD student investigating novel strains of Hepatitis E virus in domestic, food-producing animal reservoirs at the University of Porto, Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, as part of his PhD scholarship funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. Sérgio's research contributions are notable, as demonstrated by his numerous publications in high-impact journals, focusing on molecular pathogen detection in wildlife, seroprevalence studies of zoonotic diseases, and the epidemiology of viral infections in animal populations. He is proficient in both English and Portuguese, with particular expertise in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. His work is further validated through his active participation in scientific conferences, where he has presented his research findings and contributed to the academic discourse in his field. With a strong interest in zoonotic diseases and molecular detection methods, Sérgio continues to make significant contributions to the scientific community through his dedicated research efforts. He has also delivered lectures on Basic Virology on 30 November 2022, and on General Bioinformatics from 21 to 24 March 2022, and from 20 to 23 March 2023. He is part part of the COST Action Proposal OC-2024-1-27616 One Health zoonotic Hepevirus Network as a Secondary Proposer since September 2024 until the present.