• Full Professor of the Pure and Applied Mathematics Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil;
  • Member of the Board of Trustees, UFRGS.
  • Advanced Research Fellowship from the Brazilian National Research Council, CNPq.
  • The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM): Officer-at-Large
  • The State of Rio Grande do Sul Research Foundation (FAPERGS): Mathematics and Computation Committee Member.
  • Research interests include The Boltzmann equation and its applications.