About

Two degrees and one question

I studied Law and Economics at the same time, in Maceió. The combination came as much from a career plan as from a wish that had been with me since I was young: I wanted to understand the origins of poverty, how the world worked and how institutions, laws and economic choices shaped people’s lives.

The double training helped a great deal in turning those concerns into more concrete questions and in seeking answers continuously. The world is made of economic, legal, social, political and technological dimensions that are interrelated and cannot be understood in isolation. The dialogue between Law and Economics let me look at the same problems from different perspectives and formulate questions closer to reality.

Those questions still trouble me. Day after day, through work, teaching, research and continuing education, I try to move a little further towards answering them. I want to understand why a given rule produces one outcome rather than another, how much a public decision costs, who benefits or loses from it and how knowledge can help address concrete problems of society.

Between 2010 and 2014 I practised law, mostly in tax and administrative matters. In the same period I completed a master’s degree in Applied Economics at UFAL, studying the location of industry in Northeast Brazil.

University and the justice system

In 2014 I joined the Alagoas State Court of Justice as a Judicial Analyst in Economics. Since then I have written technical opinions, budget-impact estimates and expert analyses in administrative proceedings. From 2023 I also began advising trial judges.

Work at the court is a permanent source of research questions — among them, how the value of damages awards is formed, why similar cases take such different amounts of time and what the adoption of artificial-intelligence tools by courts actually does.

In parallel, I completed a PhD in Economics at UFPB, with a thesis on information and communication technology in the economics of education. In 2023 I took office as a tenured professor at UFAL, Penedo Educational Unit, in the Information Systems programme. Before that, between 2019 and 2021, I was a substitute lecturer in the Tourism programme of the same unit.

My path through public service examinations

Both of my current positions were won through competitive public examinations (concursos), which are part of my trajectory as a candidate and as a civil servant. I passed eight selections for economist, professor, judicial analyst and municipal attorney positions. In three of them I ranked first, including the examinations for tenured professor at UFAL and economist at CBTU. I was also certified in the National Judiciary Examination (ENAM). The full list is in the CV.

I still sit examinations and follow calls, examination boards and the structuring of public careers. That proximity keeps alive my interest in evaluation, management and personnel policy in the public sector.

The turn towards Information Systems

Teaching future technology professionals changed how I do research. I came to see public data as part of an infrastructure that requires reproducible processes, proper documentation and version control. I also began structuring projects capable of producing, beyond scientific articles, dashboards, open datasets and tools that can actually be used.

R, Python, SQL, Spark, big data and spatial analysis stopped being merely a set of technical instruments and became part of my objects of study. I have tried to keep expanding my training in these technologies, combining theory with application in economic research, academic projects and analyses related to the judiciary and public administration.

As part of that continuing education, I completed the course Big Data Processing in R and Python, offered by the National Council of Justice (CNJ) and the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). It covered the architecture and processing of large data volumes, SQL in big-data environments and applications of R, Python and Spark.

The closer I get to these areas, the more I am drawn to their possibilities and the more I recognise the need to keep studying. This growing involvement with technology, data protection, artificial intelligence and digital transformation also led me to the graduate specialisation in Law 4.0 — Digital Law, Data Protection and Cybersecurity (360 hours) at PUC-Campinas, with dual certification together with PUC-PR, completed in July 2026.

From the classroom to new research fronts

Undergraduate courses opened paths I had not planned and that interest me more and more. I had the opportunity to teach in the Tourism programme in Penedo, and that experience sparked my interest in international tourism demand and in the contribution of tourism to territorial development.

In 2026 I taught Fisheries Economics to the Fisheries Engineering programme. That experience drew me to — and made me fall for — Fisheries and Maritime Economics. I began investigating how economic analysis can help understand and strengthen the fisheries value chain, from catch and production to processing, distribution, marketing and consumption.

The field makes it possible to examine the generation of work and income, the organisation of markets, port infrastructure, the sustainability of natural resources and the effects of public policies on fishers, communities and firms. It also helps to understand how fishing can stimulate regional development, strengthen local economies and expand opportunities in coastal and riverside territories.

These questions gave rise to a permanent front of studies on value chains, marine heatwaves, seasonal closures, marine protected areas and the displacement of fishing effort, using economic, environmental and vessel-tracking data.

At the same time, teaching subjects that connect Law, Economics and technology keeps widening my interests and feeds my projects in jurimetrics, artificial intelligence, digital transformation and digital government. These experiences reinforce my conviction that academic training does not end with degrees but develops continuously from the questions that arise in research, in the classroom and in professional practice.

What guides my work

Three commitments guide everything I do. The first is to use public data whenever possible, paying attention to its coverage, quality and limitations. The second is to document the methods employed so that others can reproduce the results. The third is to return the knowledge produced to society — through classes, dashboards, bulletins, expert opinions or decision-support tools.

I also write weekly on LinkedIn about applied economics, jurimetrics, artificial intelligence in the public sector, tourism, ports and fisheries. The pieces are short and written especially for readers who are not specialists in these areas.

Many of the projects presented on this site are still in development. Their results may change after further analysis and validation. For that reason, the content is updated periodically to reflect the progress of the research.