Aliberti received his PhD from the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP) /Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, in 1998. He completed postdoctoral work in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health. After his postdoc, he was an assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center until his move to Cincinnati in 2006.Aliberti was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Brazilian Society of Immunology in 1997 and the Fellow Award in Research Excellence from the NIH in 2000 and 2002. He was also awarded the Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Research Excellence Award in 2002.