He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Lutheran University of Brazil (2007), a Master's degree in Informatics from the Federal University of Paraná (2009), and a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Caxias do Sul, including a research internship at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, IIMAS Academic Unit, Mérida, Yucatán (2020). He is currently an Associate Professor in the Information Systems program and a Permanent Faculty Member of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PPGFARMA) at the State University of Bahia, Campus I. He founded the Research Group in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (G2BC - https://g2bc.uneb.br), focusing on fungal bioinformatics. His research interests include genome assembly and annotation, phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses, gene regulatory network construction, and the bioprospecting of natural compounds from mushrooms. He is actively involved in projects on taxonomy, phylogeny, evolutionary biology, and the discovery of bioactive compounds from ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi.