Leonardo A. Pinto is a pharmacist who graduated from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in 2022. He was a Master's degree student in the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biotecnologia Vegetal e Bioprocessos (PBV) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. He worked upon graduation with microbiological and physical-chemical control and physical-chemical characterization of plant extracts. He is currently working on projects that focus on obtaining, characterizing, and evaluating the biological effect of natural products and their nanoformulations at the Laboratory of Natural Products Technology (LTPN). The natural products are obtained from the Sandbank plants of the Jurubatiba National Reserve in Carapebeus, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the Núcleo de Toxicologia e Sanidade Animal (NTSA), he evaluates the biological activity in fungal strains on both the growth and mycotoxins production and the biological potential of probiotic bacterial strains in the control of mycotoxins in products.