He defended his Habilitation Thesis in Mathematics, entitled "Invariance, conserved quantities and solutions of nonlinear differential equations", at USP (University of São Paulo, Brazil), in 2014. He is currently the Vice Provost for Research of Federal University of ABC, Brazil. Before this position he was elected member of UFABC Senatus (Senatus Academicus, the supreme academic authority of the University) for two consecutive legislatures: 2011-2013 and 2013-2015, the maximum allowed number of consecutive legislatures for any elected member. He is member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), London Mathematical Society (LMS), Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM -- Portuguese initials) and Brazilian Computational and Applied Mathematics Society (SBMAC -- Portuguese initials), being the 2nd Vice-President of the latter for the biennium 2016--2017.