Professor Guedes received his Ph.D. degree from Kansas State University in 1997. He is a full professor of entomology and pesticide ecotoxicology at the Federal University of Visosa, Brazil, and also the dean of the university's research and graduate school. Professor Guedes' research focuses on pesticide stress in arthropods. He has published over 350 research papers in international peer-reviewed and ISI-indexed journals and is listed in Stanford University's Top 2% of Scientists and the ScholarGPS 2024 ranking. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and a Senior Research Fellow at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He also serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed scientific journals in various capacities.