Holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1978), a master’s degree in the Graduate Program in Civil Engineering at PUC/RJ from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1980), a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics – Brown University (1988), and a Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics – Brown University (1990). During his academic career in the United States, he was a full professor at Virginia Polytech Institute and State University (2005-2011) and an associate professor at Purdue University (1990-2004). He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Structural Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers from 2002 to 2009 and Guest Editor of the special edition 15:3 of the journal Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering on Parallel Processing and Distributed Computing, published in May 2000. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in BIM Management and Projects offered by the Central Coordination of Extension of PUC-Rio, and Undergraduate Coordinator of the Civil Engineering Course at PUC-Rio. His recent research focuses on modeling and simulation of structural systems, application of artificial intelligence in civil engineering, new engineering design methodologies, and high-performance computing.