He has an undergraduate degree in Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1978), Master in Ecology from the University of Brasilia (1983) and Ph.D. in Biology - University of California Los Angeles (1988). He has carried out postdoctoral studies at San Diego State University (USA) and Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany). He was a visiting Professor at Harvard University (USA) in 2003. He was a Member of the International Group for Scientific Monitoring of the Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest (1997-2002) and has served in several review boards such as the Brazilian National Fund for the Environment, (1992-2000), the RHAE program for Environment, Ministerium for Science and Technology, Brazil (1993-1997). He has also served on the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Botany, Biotropica, Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology and was recently appointed to the editorial board of Trees: Structure and Function, starting January 2010. He has an active research program on environmental biology of tropical plants with a particular focus on water relations, photosynthesis and nutrient effects. His research integrates investigations into plant physiological processes at cellular, whole organism and ecosystem scales.
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