Full Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil; Mechanical Engineer, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 1976; Master of Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1979; Doktor-Ingenieur, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1988. From 1977 to 1989, worked at the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission, with several delegations to the Research Centers of Jülich and Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 1990, has been the coordinator of the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Since 1993, has been a member of IASMiRT, the International Association of Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology. Since 1993, has been a member of ABCM, the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. From 2013 to 2017, was the President of ABCM, the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. From 2017, has been the editor of the magazine ABCM Engenharia.