Biography

Professional position

[2018 ~] Visiting Scholar - University of California, Davis - Science and Technology Studies Program

[2010 ~] Professor - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (Cefet-RJ)


Degrees

[2015 ~ ] D.Sc candidate in Systems Engineering and Computer Science (Informatics and Society research area).
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Brazil
Advisor: Prof. Henrique Luiz Cukierman.

[2010 ~ 2013] M.Sc. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science (Informatics and Society research area).
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Brazil
Advisor: Prof. Henrique Luiz Cukierman.

[2004 ~ 2010] Engineer in Eletronics and Computer Science.
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Brazil.

Academic trajectory and research interests

Having a discomfort with the naturalization of engineering, its methods and its effects, and with the almost absence of discussions about the technoscience-society binomial during undergraduation, I found some answers as I approached the extensionist militancy in engineering at the UFRJ itself, which has in the Núcleo de Solidariedade Técnica (SOLTEC) one of its main pillars. As a result of this approach, I joined the Informatics and Society research area at PESC/COPPE/UFRJ, where I obtained a master's degree with a dissertation proposing to open the black box of projects/discourses of Digital Inclusion in Brazil, a work that, besides the typically academic correlations, allowed an approximation with a deep and rich Brazil, usually absent from the pages of dissertations in engineering; localities such as Vigário Geral, Complexo da Maré, Complexo do Alemão, and its people.

Back to the university for graduate studies, I have as general objectives (a) the construction of a narrative about the presence of ICT in Brazil, having as a guiding line the tropes of autonomy, freedom and emancipation that guided some experiences and that, through the same movement, led to the possibility of building other Brasis; and (b) to thought on the modes of existence enacted by informatics and the projects of Brazil related to them. With this aim in mind, I've been researching experiences such as the market reserve from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the free software fostering policy of the beginning of the 21st century and the actions of social movements and civil society around a libertarian informatics.

At Cefet/RJ I am a teacher working in professional education at secondary level. I am also an activist in the Brazilian national union which represents professors from universities and similar institutions. I also love poetry and enjoy hiking in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro.


For more  details, please, see my Curriculum Vitae on Plataforma Lattes.