He holds a degree in Agronomic Engineering from ESALQ/USP (1998), a master's degree in Sciences from CENA/ESALQ/USP (2002), and a Ph.D. in Functional and Molecular Biology from UNICAMP (2006). Since 2010, he has been a Researcher A at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). He has been working in Bioinformatics since 1999 (Xylella fastidiosa Genome Project/Fapesp), focusing on genomics, transcriptomics, phylogenomics, and system development, among other areas. He has published 28 scientific articles in indexed journals, one book, one book chapter, and more than 40 abstracts and papers in conference proceedings.