Juliana Calabria is a biologist (graduated from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ), with a PhD in Engineering-Hydraulics and Sanitation from the University of São Paulo (São Carlos School of Engineering-EESC/USP) with an internship period at EAWAG (Switzerland). Postdoctoral in Environmental Microbiology at USP, and Postdoctoral in Anaerobic Biodigestion at the University of Toronto (2019). She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at UFMG, Belo Horizonte,Brazil. Research Productivity Scholarship holder from CNPq and coordinator of the Water and Wastewater Microbiology laboratory at UFMG. She is the author and co-author of several book chapters and technical-scientific articles. She works with Microbiology Applied to Sanitary Engineering, microbial molecular ecology, environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance, detection and identification of pathogens, and antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater and water, wastewater based epidemiology, Anammox-based process for nitrogen removal from wastewaters, among other topics. She coordinated several national projects and with international partners. She coordinated the SARS-CoV-2 Sewage surveillance Project in Belo Horizonte. Currently, she coordinates the Genomic Sewage Surveillance Project (supported by CNPq, FIOCRUZ-MG and United World Arbovirus Research Network -UWARN).