Associate Professor at the Department of Soil Science at ESALQ-USP, specializing in Soil Management and Health. He holds a degree in Agronomy (Federal University of Santa Maria – UFSM, 2006–2011), a Bachelor’s in Business Administration (Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC, 2007–2012), a Master’s in Agronomy (Graduate Program in Agronomy: Agriculture and Environment – UFSM, 2011–2013), and a Ph.D. in Sciences with a concentration in Soils and Plant Nutrition (Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture / University of São Paulo – ESALQ/USP, 2013–2016). He was a visiting researcher at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment (NLAE), Ames, Iowa, USA (2015). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship (2016–2018) at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) – Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory.

He supervises students in the Graduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition (ESALQ/USP) and coordinates the Soil Health Management Research Group – SOHMA. He teaches courses in Agronomic Engineering, Forest Engineering, and Environmental Management. His research focuses on quantifying and understanding the impacts of land use and management practices on soil health, carbon dynamics, productivity, and the resilience of natural and agricultural ecosystems. He has traveled to 23 countries and has actively participated in scientific collaboration networks (projects and/or publications) with researchers from various Brazilian institutions (e.g., CNPEM, UFRGS, UFC, UFPR, UFMG, UEM, UFSM, UNICAMP, Embrapa, among others) and international ones, including the United States, UK, Colombia, and Australia.

He is Deputy General Coordinator and Research Director of the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON/USP). He is also a researcher at the Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI) (FAPESP-Shell) and Deputy Director of the Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) program. He coordinates the Brazilian Soil Health Partnership. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow and an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He received the Bunge Foundation Youth Award in 2022 (Agrarian Sciences – “carbon credit and regenerative agriculture”). From 2021 to 2025, he has been listed among the most influential scientists in the world. In 2025, he received the Excellence Award for Emerging Research Leaders at USP (Agrarian Sciences).