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Rodrigo M. Corder, PhD 

Rodrigo Corder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Parasitology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo. His research primarily focuses on the development of mathematical models for infectious diseases, particularly malaria, to produce empirical evidence to inform strategic decision-making in the implementation of public policies targeting the control of infectious diseases. Before becoming a professor, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (2021-2023), following his doctorate in sciences from the University of São Paulo in 2021.

Post-doctoral

Carlos Augusto Prete Junior, PhD 

Possui graduação em Engenharia Elétrica – Ênfase em Sistemas Eletrônicos pela Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (2017) e Mestrado (2019). Possui doutorado doutorado em Engenharia Elétrica na Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, com período sanduíche na Imperial College London (Reino Unido). Atualmente é pós-doutorando no Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade de São Paulo, onde trabalha com modelagem matemática de epidemias de Malária. Tem experiência na área de Modelagem de Epidemias, Modelos Bayesianos, Aprendizado de Máquina, Processamento de Sinais, Compressive Sensing, Identificação de Sistemas Não Lineares e Emissão Acústica.

Master students

Fernanda de Oliveira Busato

Fernanda earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Vila Velha University in 2018, where she conducted research at the Immunobiology Laboratory from 2015 to 2018. Her work focused on gestational tolerance and cellular immunology, particularly cytotoxic and immunological assays on trophoblast cells. Following her undergraduate studies, she worked as a laboratory technician from 2019 to 2020, gaining expertise in various experimental protocols. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at ICB-USP, conducting research in computational biology with a focus on the genomic analysis of malaria parasites.

 

Catarina Maria Stanischesk Molnar

Graduated in Biological Sciences (Bachelor’s and Teaching degrees) from the University of São Paulo (USP), with a scientific initiation at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (USP) (2021–2022), funded by a CNPq scholarship, in the project ‘Dissecting the role of the IRE1a pathway in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells.’ Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in the Graduate Program in Pathogen-Host Interaction Biology at ICB-USP, focusing on the mathematical modeling of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infection dynamics in rodents and its epidemiological implications.

Undergraduate students

Kawan Santana

Graduando no curso de Bacharel em Matemática Aplicada e Computacional com Habilitação em Ciências Biológicas pelo Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP). Possui formação técnica pelo Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (IFMS), na área de informática para internet.