Education

1997 – 2000: Bachelor’s degree in physics, IFSC, USP – Brazil;
2001 – 2003: MSc in Biomolecular Physics, IFSC, USP – Brazil. Advisor: Richard Garratt;
2003 – 2006: PhD in Biomolecular Physics, IFSC, USP – Brazil. Advisor: Richard Garratt;
2005: Split-site PhD at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA – USA. Advisor: Tom Ellenberger;
2006: Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, MO – USA. Supervisor: Tom Ellenberger;
2007 – 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY – USA. Supervisor: Richard Cerione;
2019: Visiting Scholar at Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK. Host: Timothy Dafforn.

Professional Background

2018 – present: Faculty at the São Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC), University of Sao Paulo (USP);
2009 – 2018: Principal Investigator at the Brazilian National Laboratory for Biosciences (LNBio/CNPEM);
2010 – 2015: Coordinator of the D03B-MX1 beamline for Macromolecular Crystallography at the Brazilian National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light (LNLS/CNPEM).