Holds a degree in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2007) and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford (2010), supervised by Prof. Anna C. Nobre. After the PhD, he worked for three and a half years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford with Wellcome Trust funding. Between 2014 and 2018, he worked at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Fries. In 2018 he returned to Brazil as principal investigator of a Max Planck Tandem Research Group at the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo. He has experience in Neurophysiology, Neuroscience, Psychophysics, and Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, with an emphasis on basic research into visual perception and attention.
