Carlos Marcelo S. Figueredo is a professor of periodontology at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, and an affiliated researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He earned his PhD in periodontology and clinical chemistry from the Karolinska Institute in 1999. That same year, he also began his academic career as a docent at the Faculty of Odontology, Rio de Janeiro State University (FOUERJ), in Brazil. His research focuses on the connection between periodontal disease and inflammatory bowel disease, the role of myeloid-related molecules in peri-implant disease, neutrophil hyper-reactivity in periodontal disease, and the significance of Th cell differentiation in osteoclastogenesis around teeth and dental implants.