Neurobiology of neurodegenerative diseases, neuropharmacology, psychopharmacology, neurobiology of psychiatric disorder, depression, anxiety, stress disorders, neural crest cells. I am a neuroscientist specialized in preclinical studies for neurological diseases. I have developed meta-research techniques to improve the validity, transparency and reproducibility of preclinical studies of antidepressants. I have contributed to validating and discovering novel compounds for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurological diseases. --- Postdoctoral Fellow, CNS Biology, Wave Life Sciences, Cambridge, USA. Research Fellow, Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. PhD (2017) in Neuroscience, Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), with exchange at the Institute Teofilo Hernando, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. MSc (2013) in Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). BSc (2010) in Genetics, National University of Misiones, Argentina.