Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Program at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He holds a Ph.D. (Ph.D., 2011) and an M.Sc. (M.Sc., 2007) in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará (B.Sc., 2004). His research is focused on the areas of pavement material testing and modeling and on the implementation of material characteristics in mechanistic models for pavement design and analysis. He is member of two scientific committees of the Transportation Research Board, associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, member of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Executive Fellow of the International Road Federation and member of the Asphalt Committee of the Brazilian Institute of Oil and Gas. He has published several papers in Brazil and abroad.