Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Faculty Member, Instituto de Biologia

Assistant Professor

About

Vertebrate Paleontology: Paleoherpetology, Systematics, Biogeography


Born in Rio de Janeiro (19 November 1979).

I introduced myself to paleontology in 1998 after attending a lecture by one of the most captivating paleontologists and speakers I have ever met, Dr Castor Cartelle. Even interested by fossils since infancy, until that moment I was discovering other areas of the Biology (I was in my second year of the graduation in Biology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), and had held a closest contact with areas such marine biology (meiofauna), entomology, forest ecology, environmental education. The lecture of Dr Cartelle renewed my original interest to become a professional paleontologist and, a day after, I searched a former student of him, Dra Lilian Bergqvist, at the Geosciences Institute of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, where I stayed until 2000. So I changed to the Paleovertebrate´s Sector of the National Museum (of the same University), where I started under advise of Dr Alexander Kellner. Graduated in January 2001, in the Museum I completed also the master and phd, in Zoology, also with Alex Kellner. There, my research was focused in fossil crocodiles, a theme that have been my main focus so far.

Since November 2008 I teach and research as Assistant Professor at the Biology Institute of the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, where I coordinate the paleontology lab.

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My citations:

http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=jQ_yDs8AAAAJ