• Full Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), acting also as a representative member of the Technological and Geophysical Faculty at the Highest University Councils. Member of the Graduate Program on Civil Engineering and the Graduate Program on Mechanical Engineering.
• Director of the Integrated Laboratories on Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Technology (LITPEG-UFPE).
• Leader of High Performance Computing on Computational Mechanics Group (PADMEC) and previously acted as the Coordinator of the Committee for creation and later as a member of the Consultant Council of the National Center for High Performance Computation at Pernambuco (CENAPAD-PE). 
• Research Fellow from the Brazilian National Scientific Research Council (CNPq) since 1998, with previous participation as a member of the Mechanical, Navy and Aerospace Advisor Council (CA-EM).
• Member of the Brazilian Association on Computational Methods in Engineering   (ABMEC) General Council.
• Brazilian representative in the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) General Council.
• Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation for the Petroleum Industry.
• Member of the editorial board of the international journals International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (IJNMF).
• Member of the editorial board of the Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería (RIMNI).

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

• Civil Engineer from Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) (1984);
• M.Sc. from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE-UFRJ) (1988);
• Ph.D. from University of Wales at Swansea (UWS) (1994);
• Post-doc at University of Wales at Swansea (1995);
• Post-doc at MIT (2002-2003) in Computational Mechanics.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS)

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Numerical Methods
• Mathematical Methods
• Fluid Mechanics
• Resistance of Materials
• Heat Transfer

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

• Computational fluid dynamics (compressible and incompressible fluid flow)
• High performance computation (data structure, multigrid, parallel computation)
• Reservoir simulation (alternative advanced formulations, multiscaling)
• Coupled problems (FSI, T-S)
• Bioheat transfer simulation
• Computational modeling (FEM, FVM, meshing, adaption, optimization).