Rodrigo Portugal earned his master’s degree in Computational Physics and a PhD in Biomolecular Physics, both from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He joined the group of Prof. van Heel in Imperial College London for a post-doc in cryo-EM, focused on methodological developments and, in 2010, he joined the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, to establish cryo-EM in the center. Over the last decade, he has been working at CNPEM, supporting Brazilian researchers in adopting cryo-EM, as well as working on capacity building and dissemination of this technology in the country. He was responsible for establishing the cryo-EM imaging core at LNNano/CNPEM, being the first in Latin America to operate single-particle cryo-EM. Currently, he is Vice-President of the Brazilian Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis.

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