PhD in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (1997), Brazil, line of research in International Relations; Post-doctorate in International Politics from Columbia University (2008). He is Associate Professor III at the Department of Political Science and at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is a CNPq ‘Productivity Researcher 1 C’ and coordinator of the following ‘CNPq Research Groups’: International Relations Research Center (NUPRI/USP) and Center for Studies in Conflict and Peace (CCP/USP). He currently coordinates the project ‘Hybrid Security Governance on the Northern Border of South America and Mexico: State and Non-State Dynamics’. He has already coordinated the following major research projects: ‘International and Regional Security and Defense Scenarios: a Civil-Military Approach’, CAPES Pro Defence (2013-2018); and ‘Stable Peace, Training and Conflict Resolution in Latin America: Representation of Regional Security Systems’, Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP). He also participated between 2020 and 2021 in the international research network funded by the Unión Iberoamericana de Universities (UIU). He was adjunct coordinator of the Political Science and International Relations Committee of CAPES (2013-2017). His latest books are: ‘International Security: Contemporary Readings’, Intersaberes, 2020; and co-authored ‘Power Dynamics and Regional Security in Latin America’, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. In 2021, he edited, in partnership, the special issue of the Brazilian Journal of International Politics (RBPI) entitled ‘Crisis and changes in international governance in the dawn of the 21st century: rethinking the spheres of international politics’.