I developed part of my doctoral project at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom), and a postdoctoral fellowship in Ecology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. I have experience in Population Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, and Fisheries Ecology, with an emphasis on ecological and behavioral aspects of small cetaceans, focusing on the following topics: estimation of population parameters; description of social patterns, spatial patterns, and foraging ecology; behavior analysis through strategic games; implications of individual choices for population dynamics; and implications for conservation biology and natural resource management. For two years, I was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Fisheries Engineering at the State University of Santa Catarina, and I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Zoology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where I teach undergraduate courses in Oceanography and Biological Sciences, and postgraduate courses in the Ecology Program. I coordinated the Postgraduate Ecology Program at UFSC between 2017 and 2019. I coordinated a PROBRAL project (CAPES/DAAD) in collaboration with the Department of Collective Behaviour at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior (Germany) and currently coordinate a site of the Long-Term Ecological Program, PELD-SELA (CNPq). Supported by the PRINT program (CAPES/UFSC), I spent a period as a visiting professor at the School of Biological and Marine Sciences at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom).