Has a background in Environmental Engineering. Is specialist in Geoprocessing and MSc in Remote Sensing. Currently is PhD Student in Remote Sensing at the National Institute for Space Research - INPE, where study the impact of forest fragmentation on the carbon stocks of the Amazon Basin. My main interests are: Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics, Fire Dynamics in Tropical Ecosystems, Environmental Changes in the Tropics, Carbon Dynamics and Remote Sensing of Vegetation.