Veterinarian, specialist in Medical Entomology, Master in Parasitary Biology and PhD in Tropical Medicine from Fiocruz, with a sandwich doctorate and postdoctoral degree from the Arbovirus Disease Branch of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He currently works as a collaborator at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute and as the coordinator in Brazil of an ecological study of the Zika virus in South America at CDC.