I’m currently an assistant professor (equivalent to the position “Professor Adjunto” according to wikipedia, in pre-tenure for 3 years) at the Department of Computer Science of the Federal University of Espirito Santo and Senior member of the Ontology and Conceptual Modelling Research Group (NEMO).

My areas of interest include the application of ontologies in both philosophical and computational senses, in particular the use of the Semantic Web framework, to answer complex questions about a given domain, in particular in the medical (e.g. clinical guidelines) and humanities ( e.g. cultural heritage).

My PhD thesis, concluded in 2017, is entitled “Knowledge Representation for Clinical Guidelines, with applications to Multimorbidity Analysis and Literature Search“. It was conducted at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group (KR&R) under the supervision of dr. Annette ten Teije and prof. dr. Frank van Harmelen, and in collaboration with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), where I was supervised by dr. Cedric Pruski and dr. Marcos da Silveira. The problem investigated is on Knowledge Representation for Clinical Guidelines to support complex tasks such as identifying interactions among medical recommendations and also querying medical publications for updating a clinical guideline.

I received the Bachelor in Computer Science degree in 2008 from the Federal University of Espirito Santo (Vitoria, Brazil) and the Master in Informatics degree in 2011 from the same institution. My master thesis is entitled “A study of mapping ontology from OntoUML Language to OWL language: Approaches for representing temporal information” (in Portuguese). It was supervised by dr. Giancarlo Guizzardi and developed in the Ontology and Conceptual Modelling Research Group (NEMO). Then I was a postdoctoral fellow at the  University of Amsterdam (UvA), under the supervision of prof. dr. Arianna Betti contributing on projects Golden Agents and Concepts in Motion.