is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Rosario (Argentina), and a Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Computer Science from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brasil). Operations research was the main research focus for both degrees. Its doctoral thesis dealt with scheduling problems, and was completed under the guidance of Dr. Geraldo Robson Mateus (UFMG) and Dr. Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Florida. From 2007 - 2010 he was a Research Academic at the University of Newcastle. From 2014-2015 he completed a visiting research period in the Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). His research focuses on combinatorial optimization, with a special interest in integrative combinations between exact algorithms and meta-heuristics, and in complex systems and complex networks.
He holds a productivity scholarship from CNPq (level 1B). He has published 40 journal articles with JCR, (H 16 WoS, H 18 Scopus). He acts as editor in three journals and as a referee in several international journals and conferences and agencies.
Researcher ID: K-1108-2012, Orcid code: 000-0001-7781-0034, Scopus ID: 16204085000.
é pesquisador e atualmente professor associado no Departamento de Ciência da Computação da UFMG. Interesses atuais de pesquisa incluem, sistemas complexos, redes complexas, otimização de processos industriais e cultura organizacional. Possui graduação em Engenharia Industrial pela Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) e mestrado e doutorado em Ciência da Computação pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) com período na University of Florida (USA). Durante o periodo 2007-2010 foi research academic na University of Newcastle (Australia) e realizou estudos pós-doutorais na Universitat de Barcelona e na Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Espanha). Foi diretor da Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa da UFMG (2018-2022). Publicou 40 artigos em periódicos internacionais, orientou 6 alunos de doutorado e 10 de mestrado, atualmente é bolsista de produtividade no CNPq 1B.
