Marcos B. Heinemann graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the State University of Londrina (1992). He obtained a Master's degree in Experimental Epidemiology Applied to Zoonoses from the University of São Paulo (1995) and a post-doctorate at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (2006). He was an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and is currently an associate professor of Zoonoses at the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of São Paulo. He is a reviewer in the following journals: Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, Ciência Rural, Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science, and Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia. He was associate editor in the Preventive Veterinary Medicine area of the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science. He has experience in the area of Veterinary Medicine, with emphasis on Infectious Diseases of Animals, working mainly with animal leptospirosis, animal tuberculosis, zoonotic staphylococcosis, and bovine mastitis.