Senior Fellow at CEBRI and Associate Professor of the Production Engineering/Industrial Engineering Department at the Polytechnic School, and a collaborator of COPPE’s Production Engineering Program, both at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is a member of IBRACH’s Scientific Council.

His teaching, research, development and innovation activities focus on Strategic Management, Technology and Innovation. He coordinated a research project on Innovation and Competitiveness in Chinese Industry (2010-11), among others, and has been following the evolution of China’s innovation effort since then.