Dr. Leonhard Schnittger is a Principal Investigator of CONICET (National Council of Science and Technology) at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA-CONICET), Argentina. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute of Tropical Medicine, Germany. Leonhard is a full Professor of Population Genetics and Bioinformatics at the University of Morón (UM). His main research interests are the genetics and genomics of protozoa of importance in veterinary and human medicine in order to develop control tools and measures against them. His research has resulted in more than 98 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals.