​Sandro J. de Souza is a biologist who has been a pioneer in genomics and bioinformatics in Brazil. He is currently Professor of Bioinformatics at the Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment (BioME) at UFRN in Natal, Brazil.
Awards include: i) Pew Latin American Fellow at Harvard University from 1995 to 1998, ii) elected a  "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum in 2009 and iii) Tinker Visiting Professor at University of Chicago in 2011.