Full professor at the Federal Institute of Sertão Pernambucano, Petrolina, Brazil. Permanent professor in the Postgraduate Program in Food Science and Technology at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Research Productivity Fellow at CNPq, Brazil. Ph.D. in Food Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Works in Beverage Technology and Vegetable Processing, with an emphasis on process optimization, physicochemical and instrumental analyses (HPLC, GC, FTIR, FAAS), validation of analytical methods, wines, juices, and fruit fermentations. Academic editor of the Journal of Food Biochemistry (Wiley, IF 4.2) and Beverages (MDPI, IF 2.7). Ranked among the top 20 in Brazil by H-Index over the last 5 years in the field of Food Science, according to the AD Scientific Index 2026; H-Index 36 in Scopus (ID 57949985700) and Web of Science (ResearchID L-1662-2016); H-Index = 42 and i10-index = 137 in Google Scholar. Has published 244 scientific articles, of which 181 are in high-impact journals in the last 5 years.