Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was an Assistant Professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2011 at The Brazilian National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), in Rio de Janeiro. He was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Mathematical Physics group at University of Geneva in Switzerland from August 2014 to October 2015 under the supervision of Professor Hugo Duminil-Copin. His current research focuses on the probability theory and stochastic processes with emphasis on random media, percolation theory and random walks in dynamical random environments.