I am a mathematician with a Master’s degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics, specializing in Discrete Optimization and heuristic development, and PhD in Bioinformatics at the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná and Universidade Federal do Paraná. Currently, I am part of the Genomics Lab working on the SB100 project. My research interests and work focus on: Complex networks, Classification of biological sequences, Pattern recognition, and Heuristic design and optimization methods.