I am currently a Research Assistant at the University of Manchester. I was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle (2025), a Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University & Research (2022–2025), a Rapporteur for the 2023 Global Research Council (on “Leveraging Transdisciplinary Research for Community Impact: Global South Experiences”), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (2020-2022).

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  • 2025-on    Research Assistant

    Project Interdisciplinary Systematic Review: Mechanistic Evidence and Epistemic Justice | Department of Philosophy | The University of Manchester (UoM), UK. Funding grant: UKRI | PIs: Dr. Jon Williamson (UoM), Dr. Trisha Greenhalgh (University of Oxford), Dr.  Rebecca Helm (University of Exeter).

    2025 Visiting researcher

    Institute Vienna Circle (IVC) | University of Vienna, Austria.

    2022-2025    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Project Global Epistemologies and Ontologies of Science | section Knowledge, Technology & Innovation (KTI) | Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the Netherlands. Funding grants: ERC Starting Grant | NWO Vidi Grant | PI: Dr. David Ludwig.

    2022-2023 Lecturer

    section  Communication, Philosophy & Technology | Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the Netherlands.

    2020-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher

    Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Austria.

    2017-2018 Visiting researcher

    University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands.

  • 2014-2018    Ph.D. History, Philosophy and Science Teaching

    Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. 2017-2018
    Internship at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
    Dissertation: When ecology and philosophy meet: constructing explanations and assessing understanding in scientific practice | Advisors: Dr. Charbel El-Hani, Dr. Federica Russo.

    2010-2012 M.Sc. Biological Sciences - [Laureate dissertation]

    Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB), Brazil.
    Thesis: Hennigian’s systematic phylogenetics concepts: understandings and implications
    Advisor: Dr. Martin L. Christoffersen.

    2002-2007    BA Biological Education - [cum laude]

    Faculty of Apucarana, Brazil
    Thesis: Ernst Mayr’s contributions to the affirmation of biology as an autonomous science.
    Advisor: Dr. Edson Fontes de Oliveira