Guilherme Vilela Alves is a PhD student fellow at the Macromolecular Crystallography and Cryo-EM@NOVA Labs of UCIBIO, NOVA School of Science and Technology (NOVA FCT), NOVA University Lisbon, working in Structural Biology, under the supervision of Doctor Cristiano Mota, Professor Maria João Romão and Professor Hartmut Luecke. He holds a MSc in Biochemistry for Health and a BSc in Applied Chemistry, both of which he graduated top of his class, with a final grade 19 out of 20, at NOVA FCT.