I am a Lecturer-Researcher at the Institute of Engineering, where I work on applied research projects as a member of the Sensors and Smart Systems research group. As lecturer, I teach courses related to Robotics and Electronics for the Electrical and Electronics Engineering program, and Research Skills for the Master Smart Systems Engineering program.

My background is in Electrical Engineering (BSc, MSc and PhD). Before joining academia, I worked as an engineer for 4 years with design and maintenance of industrial automation machines. During my master’s, I worked with control of electric drives to use a three-phase induction motor as a generator. In my doctorate, I worked with non-linear control and dynamic compensation for wheeled mobile robots.

For more than 10 years I was involved with educational robotics, also as member of Technical and Organizing Committees of robotics competitions, such as RoboCup Junior Soccer. Currently, I am serving as guest-editor of the joint special issue "Smart Robotics for Automation" for the journals Sensors and Automation, from MDPI. 

Quick overview:

• PhD, MSc and BSc in Electrical Engineering;
• 4 years of experience as engineer working in industry automation and electronics;
• 15+ years of experience as lecturer and/or researcher in Brazil, Argentina and the Netherlands;
• Guest Editor of the joint special issue "Smart Robotics for Automation" for the journals Sensors and Automation, from MDPI;
• 2 book chapters and 40+ peer-reviewed publications in conferences and journals related to robotics, educational robotics, automation and smart systems;
• Reviewer of scientific papers for several journals from MDPI, IEEE, Springer, Elsevier and others;
• Best Paper (2018) and third Best Paper (2012) awards at the Workshop on Robotics in Education, Best Participation at VISUM 2015, and Honored five times by Engineering graduates;
• Member of Organizing and/or Technical Committees of several scientific events and conferences, such as RoboCup Junior, Latin-American Robotics Competition (LARC), Brazilian Conference on Automation (CBA), International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications (OL2A) etc.