Background:
Prof. Tulio de Oliveira is the director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Plaform (KRISP). Prof. de Oliveira is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University and at the Collegue of Health Sciences at University of KwaZulu-Natal.
He has received his BSc at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil and MSc/PhD at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, South Africa. He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, U.K. from 2004 to 2006 and a Newton Advanced Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) and at the University of Edinburgh from 2015-2019. In 2015, he became a Professor at UKZN and in 2018, Associate Professor on Global Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA and in 2021, he became a Professor at Stellenbosch University.
Prof. de Oliveira has worked for over 20 years with viral outbreaks, including HIV, Hepatitis B and C, Chikungunya, Dengue, SARS-CoV-2, Zika, and Yellow Fever Virus. Prof. de Oliveira has more than 300 publications, with many of them in, the top scientific journals, Nature, Science and Lancet.
Awards:
Prof. de Oliveira was included in a list of ten most important scientists by Nature in 2021. De Oliveira was also included in a list of the MIT Technology Review as one of the leaders of the ten breakthrough technologies in 2021. In 2022, he received the Gold Medal Award from the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). In the same year, for his contributions to society, he received the Batho Pele Platinum Award from the Government of South Africa. Prof. Tulio de Oliveira also received the German African Award from the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2022. In 2023, Prof. de Oliveira has received the Discovery Lifetime Leadership Award and the Order of the Merit of Portugual with the title of Commander (ComM) (Comendador).
Current Affiliations:
Professor on Bioinformatics: School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Director: KRISP - KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, UKZN, Durban, South Africa.
Fractional Professor - College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa.
Affiliate Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, US.
Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa.