He is a psychiatrist and former Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Paulista School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-Unifesp), where he currently serves as an Affiliated Professor and Graduate Program Advisor.

He was the first PhD graduate of the Tripartite Doctoral Program in Developmental Psychiatry (Unifesp/USP/UFRGS). During his doctoral studies, he worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

At CISM, he serves as Deputy Director of the Precision Neuroscience Module and as Coordinator of the Phenotyping Area within the research program focused on the mental health of children and young adults.