Vitor Hugo Balasco Serrão completed his BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in Biomolecular Physics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with an internship in NeCEN - Leiden University (Netherlands). For 2 years, he was a Lecturer in the Physics Department of the Federal University of Sao Carlos. He was awarded the Louis Perry Jones Postdoctoral Fellowship at Prof. Charles Weitz's Lab - Harvard Medical School. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Banting Research Fellow in Prof. Jeffrey Lee's group at the University of Toronto, Canada, and he is currently the Director of the Biomolecular cryo-EM Facility at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. He is interested in biophysics and structural biology.