Dr. Guilherme Rodrigues Fernandes Campos obtained bachelor's and bachelor's degrees in biological sciences from the Institute of Biosciences, Letters, and Exact Sciences (IBILCE) at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in São José do Rio Preto (2012 and 2013, respectively). He works in the areas of virology, molecular biology, and genetics of microorganisms. He holds a Master's (2016) and PhD (2020) in Microbiology from the Institute of Biosciences, Letters, and Exact Sciences (IBILCE/UNESP), with an area of concentration in virology, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Paula Rahal and co-supervision of Dr. Cintia Bittar. During this period, he worked on projects with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and arboviruses such as Zika and chikungunya (ZIKV and CHIKV). He also completed his sandwich doctorate at the University of Leeds, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mark Harris, where he developed the work "Analysis of Hepatitis C virus genotype 3 resistance to direct acting antivirals." He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, studying the evolution dynamics of arboviruses during the interaction with hosts and vectors, and studying the immune response during SARS-CoV-2 infection.