He works as a permanent faculty member of the Postgraduate Program – PPGArq and the Undergraduate course in Architecture and Urbanism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) since February 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais-UFMG (September 2018). He has a Master’s degree in Social Development from the State University of Montes Claros, MG – UNIMONTES (2007). He was a former Deputy Coordinator of the Architecture and Urbanism course at Santo Agostinho Colleges – FASA. He has experience in the area of Public Health and Hospital Architecture, conducting research on Architecture and Rural Spaces, Black Territories and Territorialities, Architecture and Traditional Peoples, and Ethnic Minorities. He also supported/disseminated the National and State Policy of Humanization-PNH.

He also worked as a researcher and supporter of black leaders in quilombola territories and riparian populations in the states of Minas Gerais, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and conducted research on rural architecture, urban and rural territory production in Rio de Janeiro. He was the Editor of the AFROUNIMONTES Magazine and was also part of the Racial Equality Commission of the Municipality of Montes Claros, MG. He collaborates with the CRESCER Research Group on Quilombola Communities in Bahia in partnership with UFBA. Currently, he is conducting research on black territories and territorialities in the city of Rio de Janeiro, RJ by PUC RIO. He works as a Researcher and Member of the Laboratory of Observation of the Inhabited Space – LObEHab, with the research: Black territories and their territorialities in the city of Rio de Janeiro, RJ. He also collaborates with the Interdisciplinary Center for African Descendant Research and Heritage – NIREMA –, which is a research and documentation center for Brazilian Afro-descendant culture linked to the Social Sciences Center (CCS) of PUC RIO.