• Since January/2011: Research member at the Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics group, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• Since September/2005: PhD student in Computer Science at Architecture and Technology of Computing Systems Group, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (since 2005)

Research interests

• Natural language processing
• Text mining
• Machine learning
• Bioinformatics

Brief biography

• June/2007-July/2010: PhD Student at the Biocomputing unit in the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain
• May/2001-September/2005: Systems analyst at Procenge, Recife, Brazil
• March/1999-February/2001: Master degree in Computer Science at Centro de Informatica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
• March/1994-February/1999: Civil Engineering degree at Centro de Tecnologia e Geociencias, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil