Natália Maramarque Nespolo is part of the teaching staff of the Center for Biological and Health Sciences at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). She has a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Marília and a master's and doctorate degrees in preventive veterinary medicine from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho/Jaboticabal-SP. She completed a sandwich doctorate at the reference laboratory for Escherichia coli of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) at the Université de Montréal, in Canada. She was a professor of the undergraduate course in veterinary medicine at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), the Centro Universitário Central Paulista (UNICEP), and the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) in the areas of inspection and technology of products of animal origin, microbiology, and epidemiology. She has experience in the area of preventive veterinary medicine, working mainly in the areas of public health, health education, microbiology, food safety, and the inspection and technology of products of animal origin.