Paulo Amaral

Paulo Amaral is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Insper Institute of Education and Research, São Paulo, Brazil.

He is a Biologist (University of Brasília) and holds an MSc in Biochemistry (Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo) and a PhD in Molecular Genetics (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland). He undertook his postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge - the Gurdon Institute (Research Associate in Prof. Tony Kouzarides' group) and Milner Therapeutics Institute (Independent Researcher) - supported by a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship, Corpus Christi College Research Fellowship and Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship.

He has also taught at different institutions as visiting lecturer at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including at the University of São Paulo, Brazil; Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden, and Humanitas University and Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in Italy. His initial training was in Plant Virology and, since 2004, his research has explored the roles of noncoding DNA, regulatory RNAs and RNA modifications in a variety of biological systems, in both academia and industry.