Postdoctoral Researcher in Astrophysics at Yale University.
I will join Northwestern University as a CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2027.
Recipient of the 2026 Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics, the Charlene Heisler Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in astronomy in Australia, and Swinburne University’s Iain Wallace Research Medal for the best PhD thesis across all disciplines.
I'm a Brazilian Astrophysicist trying to get to know the universe while travelling across the Earth. I feel very lucky that my work has simultaneously enabled me to study some of the most fascinating creations in the universe while getting to do what I love most which is travelling and getting to know new places.
I am originally from São Paulo, Brazil, and I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University. I have obtained my PhD from Swinburne University in Australia, and from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany.
I am an observational astrophysicist with a deep interest in galaxy formation and evolution and a background in multiwavelength imaging and spectroscopy. My research to date focuses on the formation histories of dwarf and lenticular galaxies, with a particular focus on ultra-diffuse galaxies, using globular clusters as dynamical tracers of galaxies and groups, and the usage of multiband imaging to expand our understanding of the stellar content and morphology of galaxies across environments and cosmic times.