I am graduate (1996) in Pharmacy and Biochemistry at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), having worked as a pharmacist until 1991, when I started my academic career at UFSM. I completed a master's degree in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology Program (UFSM) in 1995 and my Ph.D. in Biological Sciences - Biochemistry, at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2005. In 2006, I started master's and doctoral guidances in two different Postgraduate Programs: Pharmacology and Toxicological Biochemistry (UFSM), where until 2020, I had under my guidance, about 30 masters and 13 doctoral students. Between 2015-2016 I did postdoctoral studies in Neuroscience at the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, which is affiliated with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain, where I was advisor of a master's student at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently, I am Full Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), where I am responsible by Pharmacology classes for Pharmacy undergraduation students, as well as Addictive drugs linked to the Graduation students. By to act in research, I am a Research Productivity fellow at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (CNPq- Brazil). My research area involves natural products and Toxicology in different animal models, including beneficial influences of nutraceuticals (omega-3, magnesium), non-pharmacological treatments (physical exercise, tactile stimulation) as well as, isotherapies and homeopathic medicines on animal models of drug addiction and neuropsychiatric disorders. My interest also involves the synthetic fats (trans and interesterified fats) induced damages on the susceptibility to development of neuropsychiatric diseases in animal models. Consequent toxicity from chronic use of medicines, as well as, their minimization after nanoencapsulation has been also studied by my research group. During two different periods (2014-2015 and in 2016- 2018) I was Director of the Graduation Program (PPG) of Pharmacology (PPGFarm- UFSM). Currently, I have two international collaboration projects: Instituto Cajal (CSIC) - Spain and Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC), Nijmegen, Netherlands. In the last few years I have served as Reviewer for different international Journals, having received merit from Elsevier and Springer. Nowadays, I have under my supervision five doctoral students, one master's student and one undergraduate student, whose researches also involve local and international collaborations.