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Head of the International Office at Paraíba State University, UEPB, Brazil. Professor at the Law Faculty.

Member of the National Data Protection Council (CNPDP), Brazil. Member of the Security and Internet Rights Chamber of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br).

Affiliated with the Research Center for the Future of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Lisbon, Portugal, as a Researcher for the Portuguese Government Agency Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Associated Scholar, CyberBRICS Project, FGV Rio.

Research Fellow at The Center for Cyber Law and Policy (CCLP), University of Haifa, National Cyber Bureau of Israel (2018). Member of the Research Group in Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion at ITS Rio.

Member of the Special Commission on Compliance at the Brazilian Federal Bar Association (2017).

Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University Law Center (2017).

Research interests presently concern law-enforcement automation measures, algorithmic regulation, accountability and governance, data protection, platform moderation, disinformation and legal innovation.

LLM in International and European Law from the Institute of European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. Bachelor of Laws (UEPB) and in Computer Sciences from Campina Grande Federal University (UFCG), Brazil. 

ICANN Fellow, NCUC Member. LACIGF and South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) Fellow. Assistant Curator, Geneva Internet Platform, Digital Watch Observatory. Member of the Octopus Cybercrime Community of Experts of the Council of Europe, of the Portuguese and of the Brazilian Chapters of the Internet Society. Member of the Protection of Privacy in Private International and Procedural Law Committee of the International Law Association and of the Law Schools Global League New Technologies and Law Research Group.

Over 20 years of research and practice with technology-related legal issues, serving as a consultant and an advisor for sate governments and agencies, security and police institutions, courts of justice, Brazilian National Council of Justice and Parliament, as well as companies in the private sector, the United Nations Development Programe and the Ecowas International Court, and the European Consumer Centre.