Claudia Masini d'Avila Levy graduated in Microbiology and Immunology (1999) from the Institute of Microbiology Paulo de Góes (UFRJ), with a master's and doctoral degree in Microbiology from the same institution (UFRJ, 2002 and 2006). Since 2006 she works as a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, is a level 2 productivity fellow at CNPq and a Young Scientist at Our State by FAPERJ. In 2015, he accredited at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute the Laboratory of Integrated Studies in Protozoology, becoming a member of the IOC Deliberative Council. She is a permanent advisor for Post-Graduation in Cellular and Molecular Biology / Fiocruz (BCM, PROEX-7), and was a member of the Postgraduate Committee from 2009 to 2016, and coordinator in 2015, when she applied to Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, In the post of secretary general, having been adviser in the period 2013-2015. She has been a member of the Technical Chamber of Collections of Fiocruz-RJ since 2008 and curator of the Protozoan Collection since 2011. She is a reviewer of several specialized journals such as PLoS ONE, PLoS Neglected and Tropical Diseases, Molecular Microbiology, Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, among And other development agencies (FAPESP, FAPERJ, FAPEAM, FAPDF, CNPq, etc.). The main research line of the Laboratory of Integrated Studies in Protozoology is Biodiversity, taxonomy, phylogeny, biology and biochemistry of enteric protozoa and kinetoplastids. She has published more than 60 scientific articles in specialized journals, 4 book chapters, has been a three-volume editor of Current Medicinal Chemistry magazine and has organized the book " Proteins and proteomics of Leishmania and Trypanosoma, published by Springer. He has directed six PhD theses (two as a FAPERJ sandwich-reverse doctorate) and seven master's dissertations, and currently oversees two postdocs, two PhD theses, a master's thesis, and two further improvements.

Microbiology and Immunology