Federal public servant of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Researcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Integrating the Permanent Nucleus of researchers of the Graduate Program in Biological Sciences – Tropical Botany (UFRA/MPEG). My research area comprises anatomy applied to taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics, secretory structures, insect-plant interaction, medicinal plants, and histochemistry. The main botanical groups I have been working with are Angiosperms, Ferns, and Lycophytes.