[1] He earned a bachelor of science degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
[1][3] In 2018, the year prior to completing his fellowship at Edinburgh, he was appointed as an associate professor of Global Health at the University of Washington.
[2] In July 2021, he became a professor of bioinformatics at Stellenbosch University's School for Data Science and Computational Thinking.
[1][4] He has hypothesised that large groups of previously-infected people with declining immunity directly drive the emergence of variants of concern.
[1] De Oliveira was included in a list of the leader of genomics surveillance as one of the ten breakthrough technologies in 2022 compiled by the scientific journal MIT_Technology_Review.