Professor from the Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. PhD in Human and Experimental Pathology from the Federal University of Bahia. My research focus on the field of emerging arboviruses ZIKV, DENV, CHIKV, YFV, ORV and MAYV. I am a member of the ZIBRA Consortium and I have participated in ZIBRA project – Zika in Brazil Real Time Analyzes (http://www.zibraproject.org/).