Dr. Luiz Brito completed his doctoral training at the University of Guelph in Canada. In 2018, he joined Purdue University and he is now an Associate Professor of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics. His research program focuses on the genomics of livestock behavior, welfare, and resilience and on the development of selection methods and approaches to enable efficient incorporation of these traits into livestock breeding programs. Since joining Purdue University in 2018, he and his collaborators have received over $16.6 million in external funding, have published more than 190 refereed articles, 200+ abstracts, and 4 book chapters, and his work has been cited more than 4,000 times. At Purdue, he has also been involved in the mentoring of more than 40 graduate students and postdocs and teaches an undergraduate and a graduate course in the areas of animal breeding and quantitative genomics.