M.D. (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1999), Ph.D. (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro /Novartis Biomedical Institute, Switzerland, 2004), Specialist in Psychiatry (Brazilian Association of Psychiatry, 2006) and Human Frontier Science Program Fellow (University of California, San Francisco, 2010). He is currently Associate Professor at the Biomedical Sciences Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Deevelopment and the Foundation for Research Support of the Rio de Janeiro State. He has experience in Neurosciences and Psychiatry, acting on the following topics: neurotherapeutics, neuroplasticity, schizophrenia, dementia, amino acids neurotransmitters.