Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, and Bachelor of Laws from the Rio de Janeiro State University – UERJ. Before joining Insper, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska – Omaha and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice – City University of New York.

He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, in Frankfurt (2022), a fellow of the Wallace Johnson Program of the American Society for Legal History (2019), a member of the Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (2019), a fellow at the Rio de Janeiro Law School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (2014-2015), and a Michigan Fellow in Refugee and Asylum Law at the European Council for Refugees and Exiles, in Brussels (2009).

He conducts research on the history of the relationships between law, science, and society. He has published in journals such as the Law and History Review and the Hispanic American Historical Review.