PhD in Agronomy-Plant Production, focused on Plant Morphogenesis and Plant Biotechnology, at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil (2020) with doctoral internship at the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University, USA (2017). The doctoral research focused on blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum) in vitro culture—micropropagation and de novo shoot organogenesis with morphoanatomical analyses using light and scanning electron microscopy—and the dynamics of the floral bud dormancy in four blueberry cultivars and chilling requirements for these crops in a mild winter climate. During six months of the PhD, the doctoral internship at the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University (USA) was developed in a study of floral and inflorescence development in rubber dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz - TK), a renewable alternative crop to produce natural rubber. The floral organogenesis and the transition from the vegetative meristem to the inflorescence meristem were described using scanning electron microscopy. Master of Science in Agronomy-Plant Production, at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil (2001) researching blackberry micropropagation. Graduated in Agronomy at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, with internship in Ecological Agriculture at the Department of Environmental Biology, at Universitat des les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.