Graduated in Biological Sciences, has a Masters in Zoology and a Ph.D. in Freshwater Biology and Inland Fisheries. He has experience in Zoology, with an emphasis on Neotropical Fish Systematics. He has been working on the knowledge of the biodiversity of Amazonian fishes with the description of new species and sampling of the ichthyofauna in poorly studied rivers of the North and South Channels of Pará State, to study their taxonomy, systematics, distribution, and ecology.
