Academic and Professional Experience: Industrial Pharmacist at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1980); Master in Chemistry from the Military Institute of Engineering-RJ (1980); Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Bonn, Germany (1994). In 1997, I became a Professor at the Federal University of Pará where, since 2015, I have been a Full Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy. From 2006 to 2019 I was an Advisor for the PPG in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Master’s); since 2015, at the PPG in Pharmaceutical Innovation (Doctorate), and since 2008 at the PPG in Natural Resources Management and Local Development in the Amazon-PPGEDAM (Masters and Doctorate). I am a reviewer for several national and international scientific journals and was a Member and Ad hoc Consultant of the Thematic Technical Committee to support the National Policy on Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapeutics of the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia (2002-2018). Since May 2015, I became a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a member of the Board of Directors of two Conservation Units, both in the State of Pará. As an interdisciplinary academic, I have experience in Phytochemistry, Phytotherapy, and Public Policies in Nature, Health, and Citizenship, bringing Pharmaceutical Sciences and Social Sciences together, building, since 1996, an interface defined as Ethnopharmacy, an Interdisciplinary Social Biotechnology.