Dr. Daniel Furtado Ferreira joined Universidade Federal de Lavras in December 1993. He received his Ph.D. in Quantitative Genetics in 1996 from the ESALQ/USP. He completed post-docs in Esalq, at the Statistics Department of the University of São Paulo, ESALQ. During his research career, Daniel has published a total of 207 papers, which have been cited more than 19,200 times. Daniel has published also three books and has advised more than 100 students.