Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM, Brazil) and member of the Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering (PGMec). He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brazil). He is the coordenator of the Laboratory of Biomechanics of UFSM. His research focuses on Orthoses/Prostheses/Implants, Assistive Technology, Solid Mechanics, the Finite Element Method, Robotics, and Metrology. He served as chief engineer at the Biomechanics Laboratory of Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, where he was responsible for the development and evaluation of medical devices. He conducted research on soft robots at Harvard University (USA) for one year. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from UFSM and UFSC, respectively. He worked at the Dipartimento di Fisica Tecnica and completed one semester of Mechanical Engineering studies at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy). He is responsible for securing research funding from FAPERGS, CNPq, SICT, BoneHelix, and Stiftung Universitätsmedizin Aachen (Germany).