Bachelor and Full Teaching License in Biological Sciences from Bioscience Institute, University of São Paulo, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), with a visiting researcher internship at the Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, Texas, USA) with a FAPESP scholarship. Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry Institute of University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) with a FAPESP scholarship and in the Department of Pathology and Disease Biology, Faculty of Medicine of Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) with a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science-JSPS scholarship. Since 2004 I am a scientific researcher at Butantan Institute. I worked at several laboratories (Biochemistry and Biophysics, Development and Innovation, Herpetology, Centre of Excellence in New Target Discovery (CENTD-IB). Currently I am scientific researcher VI at the Structural Biology Laboratory. I work mainly on the following topic: Cytotoxicity and mechanisms of cellular and molecular action of synthetic and natural compounds (graphene oxide, oxyphytosterols, animal toxins) in cell culture following the principle of the 3Rs and prospecting for bioactive molecules in amphibian skin secretion.