Francisco Montagner

2000/2004 - DDS (Federal University of Santa Maria - Brazil).2005/2007 - Residency in Endodontics (Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas - Brazil).2007/2009 - MSc, Dental Clinics - Endodontics (Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas - Brazil).2009/2010 - PhD, Dental Clinics - Endodontics (Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas - Brazil).09/2009-03/2010 - Visiting Scholar, Department of Periodontology, Ohio State University.08/2010-08/2018 - Assistant Professor, Endodontic Division, Department of Restorative Denstistry, Dental School, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil).08/2018 - Associate Professor, Endodontic Division, Department of Restorative Denstistry, Dental School, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil). 10/2023 - 12/2023 - Universidad de Sevilla, Visiting researcher. Dr. Montagner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Conservative Dentistry,Endodontics division, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). As a full-time faculty, Dr. Montagner teaches undergraduate and graduate students, coordinates community outreach activities and supervises research. Teaching activities include Clinical Dentistry, Endodontics, and Oral Microbiology. Outreach activities focus on dentoalveolar trauma. The current research topics include oral microbiology (microbial ecology, microbial characterization methods), antimicrobial agents (microbial resistance and rational use of medicaments), and dental education. Dr. Montagner joined the Ethics Research Board at the UFRGS from 2016 to 2023. In 2021, Dr. Montagner was appointed as the Coordinator of the Biobank and Biorepository Committee from the UFRGS. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)