Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative Sciences, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil. He holds a PhD in Agribusiness from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), a specialization in Statistics and Quantitative Modeling from UFSM, and a specialization in Public Health Organization Management. He completed a Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), focusing on agricultural productivity, post-harvest losses, and their economic impacts, including a period of academic activities and international collaboration at the University of Oviedo, Spain, with REGIOLAB. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) from 2021 to 2024, within the project Brazil in the OECD, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Florida in 2021 through the CAPES-PrInt Program. His research interests include applied economics, agribusiness, food systems, food security, food loss and waste, agricultural productivity, regional development, public policy, monitoring and evaluation, and public health. He has experience in quantitative methods, applied statistics, input-output analysis, performance indicators, large-scale data analysis, and data visualization. He has participated in research projects funded by CNPq, FAPERGS, the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and CAPES, as well as technical cooperation projects with UNDP and PAHO/WHO, focusing on evaluation, monitoring, and the development of indicators for public policies. His current research interests include food system transitions, the economic and environmental impacts of food losses, food security, agricultural productivity and resilience, input-output analysis, and public policy evaluation.