Full Professor at the Department of Physics of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), specialized in scientific instrumentation in optics for the study of nanostructures. He has received awards such as the Somiya Award (2009), Scopus Brasil (2009), ICTP Prize (2012), Georg Forster Research Award (2015), and the Medalha da Inconfidência Mineira (2016).
