Rafael Maia
Dr. Rafael Trindade Maia studied Biological Sciences at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He received a master´s degree in Genetics, Conservation, and Evolutionary Biology from the National Institute of Amazonian Research, Brazil, in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Animal Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2013. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Center for the Sustainable Development for Semiarid (CDSA), Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil. He has experience with population genetics, bioinformatics, molecular docking, and modeling and molecular dynamics of proteins. He works in science and biology education. Dr. Maia also leads the Computational and Theoretical Biology (CTB) and Education in Sciences and Biology (ESB) research groups.