Agronomic Engineering (2002) and Master in Agronomy-Soil Sciences (2005) from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro and PhD in Soils and Plant Nutrition from the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (2009). Since October 2010, he has been a researcher at Embrapa Agrosilvopastoral in Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forestry System (ICLF), focusing on the forestry component, and a member of the Working Group on ICLF at Embrapa in Mato Grosso and of the ICLF Portfolio Management Committee at Embrapa