Graduated in Chemical Engineering from UFRN (1994), Master's in Chemical Engineering from UNICAMP (1996) and PhD from the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering—University of Surrey/England (2000). He is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Department of Materials Engineering, and his research focuses on structure, processing and properties of polymeric composites. He has published over 270 journal articles, 500 conference articles, 25 book chapters and 4 patents, and has supervised 57 Masters/Doctoral students. He was Chair of the 3rd Brazilian Conference on Composite Material (BCCM-3), and was awarded the FAPERGS Researcher Gaúcho Award (2021) and the ANP-Category III Technological Innovation Award (2020) with his team. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Scholar, level I-B (Eng II), with an H index of 37 (ISI) and 46 (Google Scholar), and is an associate editor of the Materials Research Ibero-American Journal. He leads a Composites research group (www.ufrgs.br/gcomp) and the development of a free composite mechanics software (MECH-GCOMP, www.ufrgs.br/mechgcomp); its ongoing international collaborations include POLIMI (Italy), LTU (Sweden) and IPF-Dresden (Germany).