João Queiroz is a professor at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Queiroz earned a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), and received a post-doctoral fellowship in Intelligent Systems at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC-DCA), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His research interests include: Peirce’s Philosophy and Semiotics, Biosemiotics and Cognitive Science, as well as South-American art and literature.