Pharmacist graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), holding both a Master's and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics (IBCCF/UFRJ), including a doctoral research internship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York, USA). Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Dimorphic Pathogenic Fungi, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo (ICB-USP), supported by a FAPESP fellowship. His research interests encompass Medical Mycology, Microbiology, and Fungal Biophysics, with a focus on the pathogenesis of clinically relevant fungi, host-pathogen interactions, virulence factors, immunomodulation, and the development of therapeutic strategies. Contact: alvesv@usp.br.