RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

I was born and raised in Belém, Brazil. There I attended the University Center of the State of Para where I received my Bachelors degree in Information Systems. In 2013 I worked for the Brazilian Journal of Ornithology where I developed an electronic publishing system as a software analyst. When I completed my project with the Journal of Ornithology I decided to pursue a masters degree in computer science at the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus. My masters thesis was on Ontology development and evolution, a sub field of artificial intelligence.

I am a weather and computer science enthusiast who previously performed research related to deep, moist convection and tornadic storms and who currently works within NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory to improve our regional forecast modeling systems. I also consider myself an amateur endurance athlete and enjoy running, hiking, and cycling. 

I am a glaciologist and Research Scientist III in the Earth Science and Observation Center (ESOC) at CIRES. My research broadly focuses on the impacts of Earth’s changing climate on the cryosphere. More specifically, I investigate how ice-atmosphere and ice-ocean interactions affect ice dynamic processes, with a primary focus on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, including their ice shelves. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, I integrate satellite remote-sensing techniques with in-field observations.