Natan Diego Alves de Freitas is a Ph.D. candidate in Zoology (2023-present) in the Biological Sciences Postgraduate Program at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), focusing on population and community ecology. He graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Paraíba (2017) and obtained a Master's degree in Biological Sciences–Zoology (2019) from the same institution, with a research focus on biodiversity conservation. He is associated with the Mammals Laboratory, conducting research in the areas of One Health, conservation, and eco-epidemiology.