I'm the John B. Madden Dean of Berkeley College at Yale University, serving as the in-residence chief academic adviser to over 450 students and participating in the residential college's social life. I am also a Lecturer in the Yale Department of Physics, where I teach undergraduates.

I have a Physics Ph.D. from Columbia University, where I was a NASA FINESST grant recipient working on astronomical instrumentation projects in Professor David Schiminovich's lab.

I am passionate about public policy, and I have joined lobbying efforts in the past. I was also a Next-Generation Fellow to learn about and work on nuclear threat reduction advocacy and a Stanton Postdoctoral Nuclear Security Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Originally from Brazil, which I represented twice at the International Young Physicists' Tournament, I received my B.S. in Physics from Yale in 2017 on a full-ride need-based scholarship, after which I spent a year at the Nobel-prize-winning MIT-LIGO lab. When I'm not in lab, you can find me rock climbing, playing one of my guitars or the piano, doing arts and crafts, or playing with/training Fubá, my golden retriever.