Teaching

Where and what I teach

I am a professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, Penedo Educational Unit, in the Information Systems programme, where I also sit on the programme board and the curriculum core group (NDE). My courses lie where management, economics and law meet technology: Introduction to Economics, Accounting Information for Management, Introduction to Management, Law Applied to Computing, Digital Law, Digital Economy, Small Business and Startup Management, English for Specific Purposes and Team Management and Leadership. I also teach in other programmes of the unit — Quality Management in Tourism, in the Tourism programme, and Fisheries Economics, in Fisheries Engineering — and, between 2019 and 2021, I was a substitute lecturer in the Tourism programme, teaching mathematics, economics and financial and accounting management applied to the sector.

The classroom as the source of questions

Contact with students is what turns concepts into concrete questions. Explaining elasticity to Tourism students leads, almost inevitably, to the question of what makes a foreign tourist choose Brazil; discussing public goods with future fisheries engineers leads to seasonal closures and marine protected areas; teaching data protection to Information Systems students leads to the governance of the AI systems that courts are adopting; and discussing platforms and instant payments in Digital Economy leads to the question of how Pix spread across the territory.

Some of these questions became permanent research fronts:

• Fisheries Economics — teaching the subject to Fisheries Engineering students in 2026 opened a work programme on marine heatwaves, fishing effort, closures and protected areas, using vessel-tracking data and a geospatial data cube.
• Tourism Economics — work with the Tourism programme strengthened my interest in international demand, air connectivity and the territorial development of Penedo and the Lower São Francisco.
• Digital Economy and Digital Law — the Digital Law and Digital Economy courses in the Information Systems programme deal with platforms, instant payments, data and data protection, cybersecurity and regulation; the research line of the same name, with the project on the geography of Pix, grew out of them.
• Jurimetrics, AI and digital government — teaching subjects that connect Law, Economics and technology drives the projects on court decisions as data, AI adoption in the judiciary and the digitalisation of public processes.

The way back

Research and applied projects return to the classroom as real data, case studies and tools. The datasets built for the papers — milk prices, port calls, fishing effort, court decisions — become exercises and course projects; the R and Python pipelines become material for data-analysis workshops and courses; and the dashboards planned as research outputs are designed so that students take part in building and maintaining them.

Teaching materials

Handouts, slides and series of teaching texts produced for the courses in Economics, Accounting Information, Law Applied to Computing and Fisheries Economics, plus data-analysis workshops with R, are in use in class and will be published as they are reviewed — with the licence defined before publication.

Supervision

I supervise final-year projects and undergraduate research in the Information Systems programme and serve on examination boards in the Information Systems and Economics programmes. Topics supervised so far include business intelligence (BI) in health management and inventory control, social networks in teaching and learning, digital inclusion in lower secondary education, sustainability and green IT, IT governance and digital transformation in software companies, low-cost sensor monitoring of photovoltaic systems, accounting systems, and artificial intelligence and the right to a fair trial.

I welcome proposals aligned with the research lines on this site — public data and decision-support systems for the public sector, jurimetrics and digital government, the digital economy and data protection, tourism, ports and fisheries — as well as students’ own topics, provided they have a clear question and accessible data. To propose a project, write to my institutional e-mail with the topic, the question you intend to answer and the data sources you have in mind; from there we define the scope and the schedule together.