was born in 1970, Poços de Caldas (MG). He is a social scientist with a Masters in Social Anthropology and is completing his Doctorate in Social Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo. He is the author of A propósito de águas virtuosas: formação e ocorrências de uma estação balneária no Brasil, Editora da UFMG/IMS/Anpocs, 2004. In 2003, he won the national prize for the Best Masters Thesis in Social Sciences from the Brazilian Cnpq-Anpocs Competition for Scientific Works and University Theses in Social Sciences. He has published, among other articles, "Corpo, cosmologia e subjetividade" (Revista Sexta Feira 4, 1999), "Ratos e homens – e o efeito placebo: um reencontro da cultura no caminho da natureza" (Revista Campos 2, 2002), "O fado tropical de Gilberto Freyre" (Revista Cult, março de 2000) e "Qual estação do porvir: por causa de uma visão em Chico Buarque (Sexta Feira 6, 2001). He has participated, since its founding in 1996, in the editorial body of Revista Sexta Feira – Antropologia, Arte e Humanidades. He is a member of the Visual Anthropology Group, coordinated by Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, a part of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA). His doctorate, in progress, is in the area of Anthropology of Science and Technology with fieldwork in molecular biology and genetics laboratories whose focus falls on gene therapy.