I am a second-year Ph.D. student at Washington State University, co-advised by Drs. Tobin Northfield and Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris, and currently based at the USDA-ARS Station in Wapato, Washington. Before moving to the United States, I worked in the Laboratory of Entomology at Centro Universitario Integrado, the Laboratory of Acarology at the Federal University of Vicosa, and the Laboratory of Chemical Ecology and Insect Behavior at the University of Sao Paulo, all in Brazil.

Throughout my academic career, I worked in diverse systems, such as plant resistance to Lepidopteran pests in maize, predatory mites and their interaction with host plants, and non-consumptive effects of zoophytophagous mirids and their impact on tomato pests and natural enemies.