Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science, in Remote Sensing Applied to Soils. Master and Doctorate in soils and plant nutrition (ESALQ/USP, 1992, 1995), Livre Docente 1, 3 (1999, 2012) Post Doctorate at INPE (1995-1998), University of Arizona USA (1998), INRA , France (1998), CSIRO, Australia (2010), University of California, Davis (2014) and Texas A&M University, College Station (2014). CNPQ Researcher since 1997 (Currently 1B). Coordinator of the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geoprocessing Applied to Soils and Land Use Planning. He currently participates as a coordinator of the ESALQ Spectroscopy Laboratory (Premium Level-Glosolan Project, of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO); Pronasolos Group (Embrapa), World Soils (European Space Agency), Proantar, World Soil Spectral Library (FAO), SoilSpec4GG Group (Soil Spectroscopy for Global Good), coordinates the National and International Course (ProBASE, Brazilian Program for Analysis of Soil via ASA-Spectroscopy, Agriculture, Soil, Environment), and participates in the Pro-Antartida mission. He has taught courses in Israel and Russia. He participated in the GHG REGISTRY foundation and in the implementation of carbon credit control in the world.