Professor Luís Carlos de Souza Ferreira graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1978), with a Master's degree in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1982) and a PhD in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1985). Dr. Ferreira conducted postdoctoral internships at the Max-Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany (1986/7); the Vaccine Development Center at the University of Maryland, USA (1991); the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Tufts University, USA (1992); and the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (1996). Dr. Ferreira is also a visiting researcher at the Institute of Genetics, University of Bayreuth, Germany (2000-2005) and an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco (1983-1989) and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1989-2000). He is currently a full professor at the University of São Paulo and is responsible for the Vaccine Development Laboratory in the Department of Microbiology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences. He received several awards related to scientific work and technological innovation. He works on research related to the development of different vaccine strategies as well as new vaccine adjuvants, aiming to control arbovirus infections and tumors induced by the papillomavirus.