Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Catholic University of Salvador (1993), has a Master (1998) and PhD (2003) in Human and Experimental Pathology from Federal University of Bahia (1998), and Post-doc in Genetic Epidemiology from CASE University, Cleveland-OH, USA (2006). I have experience in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, focusing on Molecular Virology of the following subjects: viral hepatitis A-E (HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV and HEV), arbovirus (DENV, ZIKV and CHIKV), and viral meningitis (EV, HHV). I have experience on human genetics, and population genetics applied to the study of parasites and vectors of health importance, such as Schistosome mansoni and Aedes aegypti.