I am a researcher scientist at at the National Influenza Centre and in Regional measles and Rubella laboratory for the Brazilian Ministry of Health and World Health Organization, located at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I'm biologist with Master’s in Tropical Medicine and PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology. I have devoted the last ten years to study the molecular surveillance of Influenza viruses. Furthermore, I am participating of the WHO Global Respiratory Syncytial Viruses (RSV) surveillance pilot since 2016. My interests are molecular surveillance and evolution of respiratory viruses, such as Influenza, RSV and Measles.