Jacobi has an MsC in electrical engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in 1986, Brazil, and a PhD in Applied Sciences from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1993. He is currently vice-director at the UnB Gama Faculty, a new technology campus created in 2008 at Gama, Brazil. He published over 60 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters and has coordinated several projects in Microelectronics and Embedded Systems, including international cooperations. His research interests include Embedded System Design, Bioinformatics, Digital TV, Reconfigurable Architectures and Ubiquitous Computing.