Bachelor in Forest Engineering (Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais), specialist in Environment and Master in Forest Science. Currently PhD student at the Postgraduate Program in Forest Science at Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, focusing on the application of Ecological Niche Modeling tools under projected climate change scenarios, investigating the impacts on the future potential distribution of rare, threatened and/or economically important species of the semiarid.