I was born in Brazil. I graduated in geology, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988. Since then, I've been working for Petrobras in seismic acquisition and processing of both land and marine data. In 1999, I got a Master's degree at the University of Campinas, working on multiple attenuation using Kirchhoff modeling. In 2006, I joined SEP. I got another Master's degree in 2008 and currently I'm working towards the PhD.