He holds a PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada (2010). He works in the areas of Ecology, Zoology, and Oceanography and has extensive experience in cetacean research in the South Atlantic, Southern, and Pacific Oceans. His research interests include species-habitat relationship modeling, telemetry of marine vertebrates, cetacean conservation and population dynamics, abundance estimation methods, interactions between marine mammals and fishing activities, and the ecology of Southern Ocean megafauna. He is an associate professor at the Institute of Oceanography at FURG and a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Biological Oceanography (which he coordinated from 2019-2021 and served as associate coordinator from 2021-2023) and the Graduate Program in Ambientometry at IMEF-FURG. He is a researcher for the Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR), where he coordinates the Whale Project, and co-leads the orca thematic area in the Southern Ocean Research Partnership (SORP), which is affiliated with the International Whaling Commission (IWC). He was a member of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Antarctic Environmental Research (INCT-APA) and INCT-Mar/Integrated Oceanography Center (COI). He also serves as a member of the Pool of Experts for the second cycle of the Regular Process for the Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment of the United Nations. H-index: 22.