Interview with Joao Magalhaes by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. I graduated in Microbiology in my hometown of Porto in Portugal, then moved to Namur in Belgium where I obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences, working mostly on cellular models of aging. Right now I am a postdoc at Harvard Medical School studying the biology and genetics of aging. In particular, my research focuses on applying large-scale genomic approaches, both experimental and computational, to understand the genetics of aging. One project I have been involved in is the Human Ageing Genomic Resources (), which are a collection of databases and tools designed to help researchers understand the genetic basis of human aging. I am also doing experiments in mouse embryonic stem cells.