Holds the position of Adjunct Professor (Level IV) at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), working in the Graduate Program in Dental Sciences, the Multiprofessional Residency in Public Health, and the undergraduate Dentistry program of the same university. Holds a PhD in Epidemiology (UFRGS), a Master's in Dental Public Health (UFRGS), an MBA in Data Science and Analytics (USP), a Residency in Public Health (UFSM), and a degree in Dentistry (UFSM). Works in the field of Public Health, with an emphasis on Epidemiology, and conducts research on the Social Determinants of Health, the Global Burden of Disease, aspects of Healthy Aging, Psychometric Validation, and Machine Learning applied to population-based surveys. Serves as Associate Editor of Gerodontology (2024-2026) and as a GBD Senior Collaborator at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington. Advocates for public universities, shared governance, the collective interest, and the reframing of oral health education. Identifies with the poem by Antonio Machado, ''Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar''.