I received both my Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences (2012) and Master’s degree in Biology of Parasite-Host Interactions (2015) from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Goiânia, Brazil. Then, I pursued my PhD in Microbiology (2020) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a part-time stay at the University College Cork (UCC) in Cork, Republic of Ireland. This was followed by a postdoctoral research in Applied Microbiology (2021) at UFRJ. Currently, I am an Adjunct Professor in Bacteriology at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). My main research areas of expertise encompass marine microbiology, microbial biotechnology, and bacterial genomics. In recent years, the research themes I have been particularly involved with are (i) sponge microbiology (ecology and biotechnology); (ii) isolation, characterization, and applications of marine bacterial biocatalysts (specially, marine polysaccharide-degrading enzymes); (iii) microbial genome mining for biologically-active biomolecules; (iv) and the genomic characterization of marine host-associated bacteria for symbiotic and ecophysiological adaptations.