Marzia Puccioini Sohler is a full professor at the Escola de Medicina e irurgia, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and professor of the postgraduate program in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in Medicine from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói/Rio de Janeiro. Medical residence in internal medicine and neurology in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Master of Science in neurology in the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Ph.D. in medicine-neurology in the Georg August Universitaet, Goettingen, Germany, and post-Ph.D. research in the National Institutes of Heath, Bethesda, USA. Degree of Commander from the Labor Court of Justice in Rio de Janeiro. Membership: Brazilian Academy of Neurology, Neurology Association of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and International Retrovirology Association. Research interests: tropical neurology (HTLV-1, dengue, arbovirus, neuroCOVID-19) and cerebrospinal fluid.