Hernan da Costa graduated in biotechnology from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil, in 2019. He was a Scientific Initiation student at Instituto Evandro Chagas, Brazil, from 2017 to 2019, in the field of arbovirology. He is a master's and doctoral student at the Interunits Graduate Program in Biotechnology at the University of São Paulo, Butantan Institute, Institute of Technological Research, working mainly at the Adolfo Lutz Institute. He has experience in the field of immunobiotechnology, primarily working on the following topics: arboviruses, cell culture, phage display, molecular biology, expression and purification of recombinant proteins, and serological techniques.