João Pedro de Magalhães

Dr. João Pedro de Magalhães is a Portuguese-born scientist, entrepreneur, and cryonicist. He is a professor at the University of Liverpool in England. His lab studies aging and longevity, in particular at the genetic level.

In 1999, he obtained his degree in microbiology from Escola Superior de Biotecnologia in Porto, Portugal. Under Olivier Toussaint, he obtained his PhD from the University of Namur in Belgium in 2004. Then he did a postdoc with genomics pioneer George Church at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA from 2004 to 2008.

Magalhães is the coordinator of the UK Cryonics and Cryopreservation Research Network. He also is one of the signatories of the Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics, having signed it on March 22, 2004.