Dr. Roberto Cláudio Fernandes Franco Pompeu is an agricultural engineer who graduated from the Federal University of Ceará. In 2006, he completed his Master's degree in Animal Science from the Federal University of Ceará, and in 2009, he completed his Doctorate in Animal Science from the Integrated Doctorate Program in Animal Science (PDIZ) UFC/UFPB/UFRPE. Since 2011, he has been a Researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Company, Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos and a member of the Permanent Faculty of the Master's Program in Animal Science at the Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú-UVA (UVA/Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos Association) since 2013. In 2007, he received the Octávio Domingues Award granted by the Brazilian Society of Animal Science for the best Master's Dissertation evaluated in the area of ​​Animal Science defended in Brazil in 2006. He has experience in the area of ​​Animal Science, with an emphasis on Pasture Management and Production and Conservation of Forage, working mainly on the following topics: evaluation of alternative foods for ruminants, ecophysiology and management of forage plants, recovery of degraded pastures, forage conservation, animal performance, and economic analysis of pasture and confinement production systems.