Rate My Professor Aristóteles Góes-Neto

Aristóteles Góes-Neto is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Institute of Biological Sciences of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). He holds a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from Universidade Federal da Bahia (1994) and a Ph.D. in Botany from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2001). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Fiocruz Minas (2013). Góes-Neto serves as a permanent professor in the Graduate Programs in Microbiology and Bioinformatics at UFMG, both rated concept 7 by CAPES, and as a collaborating professor in additional graduate programs at UFMG and Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana. He leads the Laboratory of Molecular and Computational Biology of Fungi (LBMCF) and the CNPq research group on Molecular and Computational Biology of Fungi. Previously, he was a full professor at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana from 1995 to 2016, where he coordinated the Graduate Program in Biotechnology, the Laboratory of Research in Microbiology, and the Center for North American Studies at UFMG (2018–2022). He also coordinated the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at UFMG (2020–2024). Góes-Neto is a CNPq Researcher (level 1D) and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Göttingen in Germany. His research focuses on the biology and biotechnology of fungi and (meta)omics. He has authored 263 peer-reviewed articles, 16 book chapters, and one book, and holds 10 patents (one granted). He has supervised 29 Ph.D. students, 26 M.Sc. students, and 17 postdoctoral researchers as principal advisor. His work has achieved an h-index of 43 on Google Scholar.

Góes-Neto has coordinated multiple funded research projects and networks supported by CNPq, CAPES, FAPEMIG, FAPESB, NSF, Petrobras, and Michelin. He organized and participated in numerous national and international congresses, symposia, and workshops on mycology, metagenomics, and fungal systematics. His contributions include leadership in DNA barcoding networks for fungi in Brazil and studies on fungal diversity, phylogeny, and biotechnology applications.