Assistant Professor at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) since May 2018. Member of the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol (CNPq/MCTIC) since May 2019. My areas of expertise are biology, bioinformatics and computational and evolutionary biology. I am interested in the evolution of biological networks in general, and gene regulatory networks in particular; as well as in the evolution of gene families, molecular characterization of organisms, predicting the function of non-coding RNAs, genome assembly and annotation, machine learning, classification problems, identification and evolution of protein domains and the development of integrative databases for omics data. We have also reconstructed complex transcriptomes from angiosperms and fungi, focused on organisms interactions and enzyme and biofuel production, in order to elucidate their molecular basis. I have a bachelor in Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2001), a Doctorate in Plant Molecular Biology from the Universitaet Potsdam (2008), a Postdoc in Bioinformatics from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology (2010), and a postdoc in applied bioinformatics for microalgae from the Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo (2018). Since 2018 proud father of a wonderful baby girl.