Professor at the School of Medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Master's and PhD advisor in the Graduate Programs in Medicine and Health Sciences and in Pediatrics and Child Health at PUCRS. Research Coordinator at the PUCRS School of Medicine. Associate researcher at the Preclinical Research Center of the Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (InsCer) at PUCRS. Psychologist, completed a Master’s degree (2013) and PhD (2018) in the Graduate Program in Pediatrics and Child Health at PUCRS. Undertook a 12-month research internship (sandwich PhD) at the University of California, Irvine, USA (2015–2016), in the field of Neuroepigenetics. Completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the National Institutes of Health (2018–2020), which included a 3-month training period at the Queensland Brain Institute, Australia, in the field of Translational Neuropsychiatry. He also completed another Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit (Aarhus University, Denmark) for 3 months (2023), also in the field of Translational Neuropsychiatry. His research focuses on epigenetic, neurobiological, cognitive, behavioral, and epidemiological investigations in mental health, especially regarding vulnerability and resilience to adverse developmental experiences, as well as substance use disorder during adolescence and adulthood. Level 2 Research Productivity Fellow (PQ-2) from CNPq (Field: Medicine – Psychiatry).