He is a professor at the Department of Soils at the Federal University of Santa Maria since 2009. He has a degree in Agronomic Engineering (UFPR) with a Masters and doctorate in Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation from the Institute of Hydraulic Research (UFRGS) with emphasis on erosion and sedimentation. He is responsible for the courses of Land Use, Management and Conservation, and Management and Control of Runoff, offered to the undergraduate course in Agronomy, and Soil Conservation, with the Graduate Program in Soil Science. He is coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Erosion and Surface Hydrology (GIPHES). He has experience in monitoring and modeling hydrological and erosive processes in catchments, working on research projects in the area of: water and soil conservation planning in catchments, hydrology, erosion and sediment tracing.