Zootechnician with a Ph.D. in Animal Science from the Federal University of Viçosa, specializing in ruminant nutrition and production, with an emphasis on beef cattle nutrition and production. He has experience in consulting, developing and monitoring projects in the beef cattle sector. He was a professor at the Southeast Federal Institute of Minas Gerais - Rio Pomba Campus. He is a researcher at INCT-CA, working on the nutritional requirements system for purebred and crossbred Zebu cattle (BR-CORTE 2016); he developed software for ration calculation and performance prediction of beef cattle under tropical conditions (BR-CORTE 4.0) and the Brazilian Feed Composition Tables software (CQBAL 4.0). He is a researcher in cattle breeding at EPAMIG. He is currently a professor of Beef Cattle Breeding in the Department of Animal Science at UFV.