Agnes Figueiredo obtained her Ph.D. in Science (Microbiology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1986. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University with Alexander Tomasz from 1989 to 1991. In 1992, she became an Assistant Professor at UFRJ and later a Full Professor. She worked as a Visiting Professor at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University, USA, in Richard Novick’s laboratory from 1999 to 2001. From 2006 to 2010, she served as Director of this Institute and from March 2018 to May 2020, she was the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Science (Microbiology). Currently, she works as a Collaborating Professor in the Bacterial Molecular Biology Laboratory at the same Institute. Her research interests focus on studying the molecular and genomic mechanisms involved in the evolution of virulence and resistance in epidemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Agnes Figueiredo has established numerous collaborations with researchers from various countries and has over four thousand citations according to Google Scholar.

Email: agnes@micro.ufrj.br

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