Adriano Schneider is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medicine of the University of California San Diego. He holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Master of Science through the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, both from Brazil and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also a mentor on Infectious Diseases for the Clinton Global Initiative University.