Nicholas Farias Lopes do Vale graduated in Biology from the State Vale do Acaraú University (Brazil) in 2014, with a Master's in Botany from the Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2017. Starting in 2018, he began his joint Ph.D. in Botany at the Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Earth Sciences at the University of Granada (Spain). He has experience in Biological Oceanography and Marine Botany, mainly in the following areas: the characterization of marine biodiversity, structure and dynamics of Rhodoliths Beds and paleoecological evolution of carbonate shelves. His Ph.D. addresses more directly the determination of the role of constructor organisms in the structuring of carbonate formations in some regions of the Brazilian Continental Shelf and the evaluation of the paleo-ecological evolution of the Brazilian Equatorial Margin.