Nuno Faria is a Professor in Virus Genomic Epidemiology at the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London, where he co-leads the Pathogen Genomic Epidemiology theme. He also holds a Visiting Professor appointment at the Institute of Tropical Medicine from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

He has worked on the evolution and epidemiology of a range of rapidly evolving viruses, including Zika, dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, HIV, Ebola, and influenza. He currently serves on various boards and technical advisory groups (TAGs), including the WHO Global Arbovirus Initiative and the WHO Virus Evolution TAGs. He has worked with the WHO Eliminating Yellow Fever (EYE) strategy and contributed to the first WHO guide to the implementation of genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 for maximum impact on public health.

He obtained his PhD from the Rega Institute, KULeuven in Belgium, and was a Lecturer in Infectious Disease Control, a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, a Balliol Fellow in Sciences, and an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, where he was also a member of the Pandemic Genomics programme at the Oxford Martin School.

Currently, he leads the DeZi Network (Dengue and Zika Immunology and Genomics Multi-Country Network) funded by Wellcome Trust, and co-leads the FEEVIR project (Metagenomic surveillance for epidemic prevention in the DRC-Angola cross-border) funded by the WHO Berlin Hub Catalytic grants. He has recently co-led the UK-Brazil Centre for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnostic, Genomics and Epidemiology (CADDE), the ArboSPREAD project with the National Institute of Research at the Ministry of Health, Angola, and the Zika in Brazil real-time analysis (ZiBRA) project. His work has received funding from the MRC, FAPESP, British Council, Wellcome Trust, WHO, GCRF, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.