Rodrigo Nunes Rodrigues-da-Silva has a PhD in Parasite Biology from the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-RJ (2017). He holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (2008) and a master's degree in Tropical Medicine from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (2011). Currently, he works at the Immunological Technology Laboratory (LATIM) / Bio-Manguinhos, working on the development of new vaccine and diagnostic tools using innovative approaches that combine Bioinformatics and Computational Biology to select target epitopes of interest. He has experience in the areas of Applied Immunology, Immunoinformatics, Vaccinology, and Parasitology.