Felipe Piedade Gonçalves Neves is an Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology (MIP) at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, CA, USA (2015-2016). He has experience in Applied Microbiology and Public Health, with an emphasis on Streptococcus pneumoniae and Enterococcus sp. He works on the following topics: healthcare-associated infections (HAI), antimicrobial resistance, virulence, CRISPR, phylogenetic analysis, and molecular epidemiology.