Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Prior to joining UFRGS, he received his B.Sc. (1998) and M.Sc. (2001) from UFRGS. He received his Ph.D. from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2005) with a Ph.D. scholarship at the Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble/France (2003) and pursued his postdoctoral training at the Université Montpellier II (Prof. Dr. Robert Jean Pierre Corriu - 2006) and after at the University of Miami (V. Ramamurthy - 2014). He is a former affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2013/2014-2018). His research interests include organic chemistry, photochemistry, fluorescence, deactivation of excited states, photoactive dyes, hybrid materials, and supramolecular photochemistry