Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos

Holds a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, a Master's degree in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Genetics) from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Currently, she is a researcher at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC)/MCTI, where she coordinates the Bioinformatics Laboratory and the Darcy Fontoura de Almeida Computational Genomics Unit. She is a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), a CNPq 1A Researcher (Genetics), a Scientist of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). She is a accredited professor in the Graduate Program in Computational Modeling at LNCC and in the Department of Genetics at UFRJ. She participated in the creation and served as the first president of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C). She was a member of the Genetics Advisory Committee (CA-GE) from 2014 to 2017 and of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC) Council for the 2015-2019 term. Currently, she is part of the SBPC Board (2021-2025) as Second Treasurer. She served as First Vice-President of INTERCIENCIA, a Federation of Associations for the Advancement of Science in the Americas (2020-2023). She coordinates the Fluminense Network for Omics in COVID-19. She has extensive experience in the fields of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Genomics. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)