Graduated in Biomedical Sciences from UNESP-Botucatu, with a master’s and PhD in Genetics from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), focusing on psychiatric genetics and large-scale genomic analysis.

During his PhD, he conducted a research internship at King’s College London. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Psychiatry at Unifesp. During his postdoctoral training, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Molecular Biology Division at Unifesp. His main areas of expertise are bioinformatics, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on risk markers for psychiatric disorders, including polygenic risk scores and epigenetic regulation by miRNAs.

At CISM, he is an associate researcher in the Brazilian High Risk Cohort (BHRC), which is part of the Precision Neuroscience module.