Graduated in Forestry Engineering by the Federal University of Santa Maria, graduated in Economic Sciences by the University of Santa Cruz do Sul, master?s degree in Forestry Engineering by the Federal University of Santa Maria and doctorate in Forestry Engineering by the FUSM on the areas of forestry management and forestry economy. Currently is Associate Professor of the Department of forestry sciences of FUSM, Executive Director of the Center of Forestry Researches, and member of the Advisory Council of the National Forests of São Francisco de Paula and Canela on Rio Grande do Sul. Has experience on the area of forestry management and planning, local productive arrangements of forestry base for the regional development, projects of neutralization of carbon emission through recuperation of PPAs, LR and development of AFSs, develops researches on the conduction of the remaining of the Atlantic Forest in family farmers properties aiming the development of AFSs as an alternative of rent and life quality. Leads the Research Group on Policy and Forestry Economy on FUSM with research lines aim to implementation of social forests and the energetic utilization of residues of forestry biomass, and leader of the Research Group on Agroforestry Systems and family Agroforest, with research lines on rapid growth forests in AFSs, Social Forests, Secondary vegetation management for Agroforestry production and Systematization of Agroforestry Models.