Holds an undergraduate in Control and Automation Engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS, 2001), an M.Sc. in System Analysis and Control from Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University (2008), and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Systems and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC, 2015). Worked as a post-doc at Linköping University (Sweden). Has professional experience in control, robotics, mechatronics, and automation with the design and startup of automated systems in Brazil, the United States, and Germany for clients such as Embraer, Dana, TRW, Behr/Mahle.