Graduated in Biological Sciences from Fundação Técnico Educacional Souza Marques (1986), completed his Master's (1997) and Doctorate (2004) in Biological Sciences (Environmental Biophysics) at the Carlos Filho Institute of Biophysics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Full Professor at the Biology Department of the Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR); Coordinator of the Wolfgang Christian Pfeiffer/UNIR Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory since 1999 and CNPq Productivity Scholar since 2006. I develop studies in the areas of: Environment and Health; Environmental Biophysics; Biogeochemistry of Pollutants and Aquatic Ecotoxicology (Amazon). Currently a CNPq-1C Research Productivity Scholar. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2105-9947.