Silas Pessini Rodrigues is a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and a Master's degree from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) and a PhD in Biochemistry from the Institute of Medical Biochemistry of the UFRJ/University of Texas El Paso (UTEP), Texas, USA. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UTEP, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He has experience in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry.