Carlos E. Sousa Neves  graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) after which he moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, where he obtained his PhD in developmental biology from the University of Aberdeen.
After gaining further post-doctoral experience, he joined a small startup company in Edinburgh (Fios Genomics) as a bioinformatician. Since then he has worked for Sophia Genetics in Lausanne. He will join Paul Franken’s lab  from January 2021 to study the molecular changes induced by acute sleep deprivation in mice.