Mining Engineer, Specialist in Mineral Resources of the National Mining Agency, Regional Administration in the State of Tocantins/Brazil. PhD Student in Mining and Geo-Resource Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto/Portugal, and a degree in Mining Engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2009). He has experience in Mining Engineering, with emphasis on Brazilian Mineral Legislation, Mining and Mineral Processing, Mineral Water, Mineral Economics and Instrumentation and Monitoring of Earth Dams for Containment of Mineral Treatment Rejects.