I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Forest Engineering from the Universidade do Estado do Amapá (UEAP) and a Master’s and Doctoral degree in Botany from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). During my undergraduate studies, I collaborated for four years on research projects coordinated by Embrapa Amapá, focusing on plant–pathogen epidemiology, seed morphology and physiology, seedling growth of tree species, and the ecology and management of floodplain forests for multiple-use purposes in the Amazon estuary.

I worked as a research fellow (CNPq/DTI-A) with the Ecology, Monitoring, and Sustainable Use of Wetlands Group (MAUA/INPA), where I gained experience in floristic inventories, botanical identification, and the collection of spectral data and functional traits of tree species in Amazonian forested ecosystems. Since 2015, I have been a collaborating researcher at the Seed Laboratory (LabSem/INPA), conducting and co-supervising morphological and taxonomic studies on Sapotaceae, Lecythidaceae, and Copaifera (Fabaceae) from the Amazon.

Currently, I am a research fellow (FAPEAM/AT-III) at the INPA Herbarium, working on the (SpectraPop) project, which aims to promote the use of infrared spectroscopy for identifying tree species of commercial importance. I also collaborate with national and international research networks and working groups, including the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN), the Tropical Seed Trait Database (TSTD), and the International Herbarium Spectral Digitization (IHerbSpec), in addition to maintaining strong partnerships with researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany), the INPA Herbarium, and the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP/INPA).

My main research interests include the taxonomy and systematics of angiosperms (with a focus on Neotropical Sapotaceae), Amazonian tree flora, spectroscopy applied to species identification, species distribution modeling, floristic studies, and forest ecology.

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