BSc, MSc and Ph.D. in Biomolecular Physics (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and NeCEN - Leiden University (Netherlands). Between 2013-2015, I was Lecturer at Physics Department - Federal University of Sao Carlos. Posteriorly, I was awarded the Louis Perry Jones Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and later with the prestigious Banting Research Fellow at University of Toronto, Canada. Currently, I am Director of the Biomolecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility - UC Santa Cruz.