Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Maranhão in 1988. I also earned a Master's degree in Genetics from the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto - University of São Paulo in 1992, and a PhD in Genetics from the same institution in 1997. He was the coordinator of Sciences Without Borders-Biology program at UFMA in Coimbra, Portugal. He is a member of the Commission for the Evaluation of Higher Education Courses in Maranhão and Ad hoc consultant for the Research Support Foundation of the State of Maranhão (FAPEMA). He has experience in the areas of population genetics, public health, and environmental epidemiology. He specializes in Environmental Epidemiology and the study of infectious and parasitic diseases, with a focus on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and AIDS in populations at risk in the State of Maranhão. He is a level-2 CNPq productivity researcher (PQ-2, 2021-2024) and an Associate Professor IV in the Department of Biology at the Federal University of Maranhão. I am a permanent professor in the Graduate Program for Health Sciences at UFMA.