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PhD in Physics from Université Paris-Diderot/Paris-7 (2012), he served as an assistant professor at the same institution (2010-2012) and as an associate researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (2012-2017). He holds a bachelor's degree in Astronomy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2008), an engineering diploma (Engenheiro Polytechnicien) from École Polytechnique (France, 2008), and a master's degree in Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France, 2009). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP). Since 2009, he has been a member of the H.E.S.S. scientific collaboration, where he held the positions of coordinator ("Convener") of the Astroparticle Working Group, member of the Observations Committee, and member of the Executive Council (2014-2017). He is also part of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) consortium (since 2011), where he coordinated the Galactic Center and Inner Galaxy Astrophysics division from 2017 to 2023. Since 2019, he has represented the São Carlos Institute of Physics in the SWGO (Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory) collaboration. In 2024, he joined the LST (Large Size Telescopes) collaboration, which operates the Large Telescopes already active at the northern site of the future CTAO. Between 2019 and 2024, he coordinated a FAPESP-funded Young Researcher project, and in 2025, he was invited as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. His research focuses on high-energy astrophysics and particle astrophysics, with an emphasis on data analysis, atmospheric shower simulations, dark matter searches, modeling of gamma-ray emissions from black holes, Galactic Center astrophysics, as well as the acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays.