Dr. Alexander Birbrair currently works at the Department of Dermatology, Medical Sciences Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA. He received his Bachelor’s Biomedical degree from Santa Cruz State University in Brazil. He moved to North Carolina, where he finished his Ph.D. in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Osvaldo Delbono. Then, he joined as a Post-Doctorate in Stem Cell Biology at Paul Frenette’s laboratory at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. In 2016, he was appointed a Faculty Member at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, until 2022. In 2022, he was appointed a Faculty Member at University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA. His laboratory is interested in understanding how the cellular components of different tissues function and control disease progression. His group explores the roles of specific cell populations in the tissue microenvironment by using state-of-the-art techniques.