He holds a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Passo Fundo (2001), a Masters degree (2003) and a PhD (2007) in Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Graduate Program in Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (PPGEM) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), including a doctoral sandwich period at the University of Utah (USA). He has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) since 2011 and is currently a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (PPGECAM). He served as a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Civil Engineering (PPGEC-UFSM) and the Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering (PPGEAmb) from 2020 to 2024, and as Coordinator of PPGEAmb between 2021 and 2024. During his coordination, PPGEAmb achieved an increase in its CAPES score from 4 to 5, according to the 20172020 evaluation cycle. He played a key role in the internal evaluation, strategic planning, and implementation of the merger between PPGEAmb and PPGEC, which resulted in the creation of PPGECAM in 2025. As a result of this strategic process, PPGECAM achieved CAPES Concept 6 (on a scale from 1 to 7) in the most recent national evaluation, reflecting its academic excellence and international recognition. He previously served as a professor at the Lutheran University of Brazil (ULBRA) from 2007 to 2011 and at the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS) from 2006 to 2007. He was Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at UFSM from 2013 to 2015, during which the program was ranked as the best in Brazil in the field of Environmental Engineering according to the ENADE/MEC evaluation (2014). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Rhode Island (USA) from 2018 to 2019 under a Fulbright Visiting Scholar award. His research and professional activities are focused on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, with emphasis on drinking water supply, water resources management, drinking water and wastewater treatment aimed at reuse, including coagulation/flocculation, sedimentation, flotation, and Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs), as well as environmental risk assessment and environmental impact studies (EIA/RIMA). He has served as a course evaluator for the Brazilian Ministry of Education (INEP/MEC) since 2010. He is the institutional representative of UFSM in the EXCEED-SWINDON internationalization project funded by the DAAD and the Brazilian coordinator of the Latin American Network for Research on Fluoride and Dental Fluorosis (RELIFYF). He is a member of the International Water Association (IWA), and the Brazilian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (ABES). He was elected Member of the Board of Management of the EXCEED-SWINDON project for the 20182019 term and served as the Latin American representative of the SWINDON-EXCEED Association, registered in Braunschweig, Germany. He currently coordinates the BRAFITEC project Sustainable Water and Environmental Management Engineering IDEE, approved in 2024 with funding from CAPES (Process No. 88887.917200/2023-00), in partnership with leading French institutions such as Polytech Montpellier, Polytech Tours, and Polytech Annecy-Chambéry. This initiative consolidates a high-level bilateral academic network, promoting student mobility, incoming international students, and technical missions in France. In addition, a double-degree agreement with the University of Montpellier is currently under negotiation for undergraduate programs in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Among his main technical outputs, in addition to peer-reviewed scientific publications, are three patents for industrial water treatment equipment and the review of the Portuguese translation of the book Principles of Water Treatment