PhD in Veterinary Sciences (2013). Research area in Preventive Veterinary Medicine, with emphasis on Bacteriology and infectious Diseases (mainly fish diseases), working in the areas: diagnosis (microbiological and molecular), pathogenesis, bioinformatics and genomics of bacteria pathogenic to fish. He is currently coordinator of the Laboratory of Fish Bacteriology (LABBEP) and Adjunct Professor of the State University of Londrina.