Profº Mayer holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (2005), Brazil, a Master's in Production Engineering from PPGEP-UFSM (2009), and a Master's in Process Engineering from PPGEPro-UFSM (2010), Brazil. He earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2014). He currently serves as Associated Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and is a permanent advisor in the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria. He was Coordinator of the Chemical Engineering Course at UFSM from 2019 to 2023. He is a member of the team for the Human Resources Program (PRH) in Oil Processing and Biofuels of the ANP at UFSM, acting as an advisor in the Biofuels Process Engineering line and as a member of its Management Committee. He has experience in the field of Chemical Engineering, with an emphasis on Renewable Energy, working primarily on the following topics: biomass, economic feasibility assessment, biomass electricity generation, and fuel ethanol distillation.