Post Doctorate Research Assistant at the Soybean Innovation Laboratory at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I am the disease and pest team coordinator, helping our partners in Africa overcome their soybean production problems and thrive on the crop. Ph.D. in soybean production in the Crop Physiology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the guidance of Dr. Frederick E. Below. My Ph.D. focused the impact of management factors in soybean quality (Protein and oil concentrations) and how to increase those levels while keeping the high yield environment. Specifically on sulfur nutrition, soybean inoculation, and varieties response to management in Illinois. The United Soybean Board partially funded my research on a project with collaboration with other Universities led by Dr. Ignacio Ciampitti at Kansas State University. My master's thesis oversaw, with meta-analytic tools, the effect of N, P, or K fertility, insecticide and fungicide at R3, and reduced row spacing on soybean grain yield, protein, and oil concentrations. During my time in the Crop Physiology Laboratory, I also studied Ammonium Sulfate and foliar micronutrients on corn yield and the effect on soybean yield and grain quality when treated with allyl isothiocyanate. My bachelor's degree is from Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) in Londrina Parana, Brazil. My undergraduate research experience comes mainly with seed physiological potential tests with wheat, oat, soybeans, corn, canola, and snap beans together with some field experience with small plot research with small grains.
