I developed part of my doctoral project at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom) and completed 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 the ecological and behavioral aspects of small cetaceans. My work focuses on the following topics: estimation of population parameters; description of social and spatial patterns, as well as feeding ecology; interpretation of behavior through strategic games; implications of individual choices for population dynamics; and their relevance to conservation biology and natural resource management.

For two years, I served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries Engineering at the State University of Santa Catarina. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Zoology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where I teach undergraduate courses in Oceanography and Biological Sciences, and graduate-level courses in the Ecology Program. I coordinated the UFSC Graduate Program in Ecology from 2017 to 2019.

I led 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 within the Long-Term Ecological Research 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).