PhD (Computing) by Plymouth University/UK, Computer Engineer (B.Sc.) (2008), and Master in Computational Modelling (M.Sc.) (2011) by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande(FURG)/Brazil. Associate Professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) - Florianópolis/Brazil, and associate researcher at Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR) in Rome (Italy). I'm interested in autonomous and mobile robots, adaptive behavior, evolutionary robotics and evolutionary computation, complex systems and machine learning.