I hold a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 2015), a Master's degree in Organic Chemistry from the São Paulo State University (UNESP/IQAr, 2018), and a doctorate degree also from the São Paulo State University (UNESP/IQAr, 2022). I carried out two internships at the Université de Genève (UNIGE, Switzerland - under the supervision of professors Emerson Queiroz and Jean-Luc Wolfender), the first being during my undergraduate studies (2013) and the second one during my master’s (2016/2017). In 2019/2020, I was a Visiting Scholar at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of California San Diego, United States - under the supervision of Prof. Pieter Dorrestein), funded by the Fulbright Commission. Currently, I am a post-doctoral researcher at Pieter Dorrestein's Laboratory at UCSD (2022-present).

I have experience in the field of Chemistry, with an emphasis on the Chemistry of Natural Products, with the main focus on the chemical, chemotaxonomic, metabolomic, and biological study of secondary metabolites produced by plants from the Brazilian biodiversity. Recently, my primary research has focused on leveraging data science approaches to reanalyze public metabolomics datasets and investigate the widespread distribution of specific metabolite classes, including bile acids, N-acyl lipids, and carnitines. These efforts have led to the discovery of thousands of previously uncharacterized compounds, substantially expanding the known chemical space of these classes of metabolites. Several of these newly identified molecules exhibit strong associations with health-related phenotypes, highlighting the need for further studies to elucidate their mechanistic roles in disease. In addition, I lead the development of the Collaborative Microbial Metabolite Center knowledgebase (CMMC-kb).