Alessandro C Pasqualotto is a Professor at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is also a Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology and Chief of the Molecular Biology Lab in a large tertiary hospital in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil. He obtained his PhD degree in the study of candidemia from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2004. His skills and expertise include medical microbiology, fungi, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular biology, fungal infection, pathogens, antibiotics, antimicrobials and business administration.