Antonio Inácio Andrioli is a philosopher with multidisciplinary background in various areas of scientific knowledge. A specialist in cooperativism, with a MA in science education and a PhD in economic and social sciences, he is outstanding in research involving transgenic soybean and its social and environmental effects on Brazilian farmers. In 2003 he received the DAAD Foreign Student Promotion Award in Germany, completed his doctorate at Osnabrück University in 2006, and from 2008 to 2009 served as a researcher at the Institute of Development Sociology at Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. Recently he has worked in Brazil as professor of the Master's in Agroecology and Sustainable Rural Development program at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul, a university he has helped build since its inception in 2009, and where he has been campus director, vice rector, and chairman of the course implementation committee of medicine. He was a member of the National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) as a family farming specialist from 2011 to 2017, and participated for many years in the Agrobiodiversity Study Group (GEA), coordinated by the Center for Agrarian Studies and Rural Development of the former Ministry of Agrarian Development. His book Transgenics: The Seeds of Evil. The silent contamination of soils and food, originally published in Germany, has made him internationally known for his research in the field of transgenics and pesticides.