Germán Ernesto Metz received a BS in Biotechnology from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (2004) and a PhD in Veterinary Sciences from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata -UNLP- (2010). He also obtained a Masters in University Teaching from UNLP in 2014. He completed a postdoctoral stay at INIA, Spain in 2014. He is an Associate Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). He works at the Laboratorio de Virología/Centro de Microbiología Básica y Aplicada/Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, UNLP.  His work in virology has resulted in more than 40 publications and several presentations and lectures in Argentina, Ecuador and México. His research interests include: virology, molecular biology, ER stress, viral pathogenesis, cell culture, antivirals, and veterinary viruses.