Research Interests

 

Research interests and ongoing collaborations

  • Medium- to low-temperature deformation and geochronology (Rb-Sr and K-Ar in metasedimentary rocks and fault/shear zone samples)
  • Evolution of syn-to post-collisional basins and associated volcanism
  • Detrital mineral geochronology (zircon, apatite, white mica)
  • Fault gouge dating using K-Ar in illite
  • Shape-preferred orientation and strain analysis of sedimentary rocks
  • Geological Section restoration and balancing

My research focus is on geochronology and structural geology of upper crust deformation processes in medium-to-low temperature range. I investigate the petrography, fabric, isotopic and geochronology of detrital and metamorphic minerals in deformed metasedimentary rocks and faults.

Funded projects

  • Research Abroad Internship (FAPESP Grant Nº 2025/01257-2) at Curtin University: “Constraining the evolution and deformation timescales in the Ediacaran Itajaí Foreland Basin using white mica in-situ Rb-Sr geochronology” (Supervisor: Dr. Bruno V. Ribeiro).
  • FAPESP PhD scholarship (Nº 2021/11048-0) at São Paulo University (Brazil) in the Mineralogy and Geotectonic Department at the Institute of Geosciences. FAPESP Grant (Supervisor: Dr. Miguel A. S. Basei).
  • FAPESP Undergraduate Research (2018/04669-6) “Isotopic studies of the Paraguay Belt internal domain” (Supervisor: Mário C. Campos Neto).