After completing his PhD in 2008 at the State University of Campinas, Brazil, he was a postdoc at Ames Laboratory and Columbia University/Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2012. He is a theoretical condensed matter physicist working on a variety of strongly correlated electronic systems, with emphasis on unconventional superconductors. Among the prizes he has received in his career are the DOE Early Career Award (2014), the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2015), the Cottrell Research Scholar Award (2016), the George Taylor Award (2017), and the McKnight Presidential Fellowship (2017).