Dr. Carolina Carvalho Gontijo works in the Laboratory of Human Genetics, University of Brasilia.  Dr. Carolina Carvalho Gontijo works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Tropical Medicine/UnB and as a Collaborating Researcher linked to the Postgraduate Program in Animal Biology IB/UnB. Dr. Gontijo has a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília (2005), a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília (2007), a master's degree in Animal Biology from the University of Brasília (2008) and a doctorate from the same program (2019), both with an emphasis on Biological Anthropology and Ancestry. Dr. Gontijo was a professor of Biological Anthropology, with a focus on Evolution and Human Genetics, at Faculdade Alvorada for the undergraduate course in Biology. Dr. Gontijo worked as a guest researcher at the Luis Concheiro Institute of Forensic Sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Dr. Gontijo has field experience in the collection, processing and analysis of primary data in demography, general health and genealogy, and in the area of ​​Genetics, with an emphasis on Population Genetics, Biological Anthropology, Ancestry and Forensic Genetics.