Dr. Gustavo Ribeiro Xavier is a researcher at Embrapa Agrobiology. He received a degree in Agronomy from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in 1996, a master’s degree in 2000, and a doctorate in 2003 in Agronomy and Soil Science from UFRRJ. He works as a soil microbiologist in Research, Development and Innovation and Technology Transfer projects. In the R&D&I management, he was the supervisor of the Project Support Center and a member of the Internal Technical Committee (2008 to 2010), working in the management of the Technologies, Products, and Processes portfolio as a strategy for monitoring the Unit’s Master Plan. From 2013 to 2020, he was the General Head of Embrapa Agrobiology, and in 2020/2021 he was Head of the Innovation and Business Secretariat of Embrapa in Brasília. He has been recognized by funding agencies as a Young Scientist of Our State by FAPERJ since 2008, and a Productivity Scholarship by CNPq since 2006 in the Technological Development and Innovative Extension category and since 2009 in the Research category.