Jorge Ascenção Oliveira (PharmD, PhD, EuCP) is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Porto – where he coordinates the Observatory for Academic Success. He is the President of the Pedagogical Council at the Faculty of Pharmacy – where he lectures and coordinates Neuroscience and Physiology units. 

Jorge is a Group coordinator at UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, where he is also the founder and leader of the Research Lab Mitochondria and Neurobiology. His main research interests include the pathophysiology and experimental therapeutics for neurodegenerative disorders (www.mitoneuro.com).

He is an European Certified Pharmacologist (EuCP; Certificate) and a trained Data Scientist (Datacamp profile). In Portugal, he worked in the U.Porto and U.Coimbra (Center for Neuroscience). Internationally, he worked in the U.Autónoma Madrid (ES), the Buck Institute for Age Research (CA, USA), the University College London (UK), and in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research (UK).

Jorge received the U.Porto Best Students Award (Eng. António de Almeida Foundation), Young Investigator Award (Biochemical Society, PT), competitive Research Projects as Principal Investigator, and several Pedagogical Awards from the U.Porto (Excellence in e-learning, Pedagogical Excellence, and Pedagogical Innovation) and the AEFFUP (10 Annual Best Professor Awards).

He plays the guitar, enjoys cycling and trail running, and biodiversity monitoring.