Kassio Ferreira Mendes is a professor of biology and integrated management of weeds at the Department of Agronomy, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. He graduated from the State University of Mato Grosso in 2011 and received a master’s in agronomy (crop science) from the Federal University of Viçosa in 2013. Post-Doctor (2019) and Doctor (2017) in Sciences—Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (Chemistry in Agriculture and Environment), Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Campus 'Luiz de Queiroz', University of São Paulo, Brazil with a research fellowship at the University of Minnesota, USA (2016), Twin Cities Campus—College of Food and Agricultural Sciences in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate and United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service (USDA—ARS). Dr. Mendes is a member of the Brazilian Society of Weed Science.