Rogerio Margis is a CNPq researcher and Full Professor in the Department of Biophysics and Biotechnology Center at the Federal University of UFRGS. He has been a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2016. He completed his doctorate at the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, IBMP of the CNRS, at ULP Strasbourg I, France, in 1993. In 2002, he carried out a postdoctorate on the processes of RNA interference and production of microRNAs in plants at the Plant Industry, CSIRO, Australia. In 2020, he carried out a sabbatical internship at Stanford University. From 1994 to 2003, he was an assistant professor at UFRJ. He currently participates in research projects related to the following topics: small RNAs and non-coding RNAs in rice, soybeans and native neotropical species; action of cysteine proteases and their inhibitors; proteins related to abiotic stresses (cold, drought and metals), proteomic analysis and environmental metagenomics. He works in the areas of Genetics and Biochemistry, with emphasis on Molecular Biology: regulation of gene expression, molecular markers and gene editing. He interacted with more than a hundred national and international collaborators in projects and co-authored scientific works. He is a deputy coordinator of INCT Plant-Stress Biotech and coordinator of the Gaucho Technological Cluster for Gene Edition and CNPq IA2 network. His bibliographic production is also registered in ORCID (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-4473).