Assistant professor at the Physics Institute of São Carlos (IFSC) of the University of São Paulo (USP). He received his PhD in biomolecular physics from the University of São Paulo and the University of Marburg in 2008, and completed two years of postdoctoral work in medicinal chemistry and structural biology at the University of São Paulo. He is a specialist in structure-based drug design and in the integration of computational and experimental methods. His research is focused on the structural elucidation of relevant molecular targets and the application of this knowledge toward the discovery and development of new drugs and agrochemicals for human and plant diseases. He is a CNPq research fellow – 2 level and the coordinator of an Young Research Grant from FAPESP, whose scientific approach consists of the use of a variety of advanced methods for agrochemical and drug design. He has published 35 scientific papers and 6 book chapters. He is a member of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ), and an associate investigator of the National Institute of Structural Biotechnology and Medicinal Chemistry in Infectious Diseases (INBEQMeDI-INCT-CNPq-FAPESP).