Graduated in Oceanology from the Federal University of Rio Grande (1978), MA in Océanologie - Université de Bordeaux I (1987) and Ph.D. in Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Aquatic Environments - Université de Bordeaux I (1994).
Is currently Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande, and is in charge of the geochemistry lab.
He has experience in environmental geochemistry and continental aquatic systems, marine and coastal, acting on the following topics: Pollution and geochemistry of heavy metals, environmental studies and oil degradation of organic compounds and marine geochemistry of aquatic systems; organic pollution, aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons; molecular