Professor Brandelli Costa is a specialist in Social and Health Psychology. He holds a Bachelor's in Psychology, a Master's in Social and Institutional Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, with a postdoctoral internship at PPGPSICO/UFRGS. Currently he also is an associate researcher at the Gender Identity Program at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA). Professor Brandelli Costa already worked as a consultant for UNAIDS in the coordination of the Stigma Index Brazil research, for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO). He is editor-in-chief of Trends in Psychology, associate editor of PLOS ONE, and a member of the editorial board of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychology & Sexuality, and Interamerican Journal of Psychology. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Sex Research (IASR). He acts as coordinator of projects financed by several Brazilian agencies and has already received several national and international recognition for his work, being the first Latin American researcher to receive the Rising Star from the Association of Psychological Science (APS), in addition to being one of the 30 leaders of the APA Global Psychology Learning Leadership Institute. He develops research in the areas of social and health psychology, with an emphasis on prejudice and social attitudes, sexuality, gender and HIV/AIDS.