He holds a degree in Mathematics from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the Immaculate Conception (1977), a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (1978), a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1982) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2004). He is currently an adjunct professor at the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho and a reviewer for the journals - Control & Automation, - Information Sciences and - Applied Soft Computing. He has experience in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on Electrical Systems Planning, working mainly on the following topics: stability analysis - neural network -, load forecasting - neural network, art/artmap, safety of electrical power systems and neural networks.