– Degree on Biology. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1992.
– Master in Zoology, Museu Nacional – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1995.
– PhD in Zoology. Museu Nacional – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (doctoral stay in the American Museum of Natural History, New York), 2006.
- Morphometric analysis (classic and geometrical morphometrics)
- Functional morphology (Evolutionary and Ecological morphology)
- Paleontology
- Mammalia (Cetartiodactyla (Ungulata e Delphinidae), Carnivora, Chiroptera)
- Reptilia (Crocodylia e Amphisbaenidae)
- Bio-statistics applied to human physiology
