Professional experience:

Sep 2025 to Present: Researcher and course instructor at the Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Semiotics department, Aarhus University (Denmark).
Oct 2022 to Aug 2025: Postdoctoral researcher at the ERC-funded project The Evolution of Early Symbolic Behavior (eSYMb) (PI: Prof Kristian Tylén), based at the Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Semiotics department, Aarhus University (Denmark).
Sep 2020 to Aug 2022: Postdoctoral researcher with the Profs-Chercheurs project (PI: Dr Ignacio Atal) at the University of Paris City (France).
March 2020 to Aug 2020: Postdoctoral researcher with Profs David Traviso and David Jacobs at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain).

Professional experience outside academia:

2011-2013: Editor and writer of educational materials at Moderna Publishing Group (São Paulo, Brazil).
2007-2010: Science teacher at primary schools (São Paulo, Brazil).

I taught the following courses at Aarhus University: - Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Spring 2025) - Perception and Action (Autumn 2025)

PhD Biology, University of St Andrews (2018), supervised by Prof Kevin Lala - link to my PhD Thesis “Living and learning together”
MSc Psychology, University of São Paulo (2012), supervised by Prof Briseida Dogo de Resende - link to my Masters’s dissertation “A atribuição de cultura a primatas não humanos: a controvérsia e a busca por uma abordagem sintética” .
Lic Biology, University of São Paulo (2006)
BSc Biology, University of São Paulo (2003)