He graduated in Agronomy from the Federal University of Viçosa (1994), with a master's and doctorate in Soils and Plant Nutrition from the same university (1997 and 2001) and a post-doctorate from CSIRO Land and Water, Australia. He has been a researcher at Embrapa Solos since 2001 and coordinates the innovation center for tropical agriculture inputs, a research group that studies alternatives for increasing the efficiency of use and developing new technologies in fertilizers adapted to tropical agroecosystems. He was coordinator of the FertBrasil Network from 2009 to 2018 and Head of ReD at Embrapa Solos from 2018 to 2019. He has experience in Agronomy, with an emphasis on Organic Matter of Soil and Fertility, working mainly on the themes: agricultural use of organic residues, new technologies in fertilizers, and good practices for the efficient use of fertilizers.