Graduated in Biological Sciences at University of São Paulo (1992), Master (1997) and PhD (2002) degrees in Biochemistry with emphasis in Molecular Biology  at University of São Paulo, Bioinformatics specialist (2002) at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing,  post-doctoral at Genetics Department (Federal University of Pernambuco - 2004) and visiting researcher at the Halpin Laboratoy (Univ. of Exeter, UK)  2012/13. Researcher in Bioinformatics starting at Embrapa Trigo from November 2006, and at  Embrapa Agricultural informatics since March 2017.