Carlos Juliano Simões-Ferreira is a British Red Cross Research Fellow on the joint British Red Cross/International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) project on customary international humanitarian law. Prior to joining the project, Carlos Juliano was a Graduate Teaching Assistant on the School of Law, the School of Philosophy and Arts History, as well as the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. He also worked as a criminal lawyer in Brazil, as well as a legal intern in different organisations in the United Kingdom, Brazil and Colombia.
Carlos Juliano is currently researching for a Ph.D. in Human Rights at the University of Essex and holds an LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the same institution. Carlos Juliano speaks Portuguese, Spanish, German, English and French.