I am a Brazilian science and environmental journalist, based in São Paulo. Since January 2000 I’ve been a reporter for 'O Estado de S. Paulo'​ newspaper, with more than 2,000 stories published in print and online format, on a wide variety of topics. Since January 2015 I am also a contributing writer to ‘Science’ magazine, in the US.  In 2014 I received the "Prêmio José Reis de Divulgação Científica e Tecnológica", the most prestigious award for science journalism in Brazil; and in April 2016 I co-founded the USP Talks initiative, a public-talk program meant to strengthen communication between scientists and society. As content director of the initiative I am responsible for choosing topics, coaching speakers and mediating monthly events where researchers talk to the public about issues that are in the news. I was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where I recently studied multimedia journalism, photography and video, as well as media entrepreneurialism. I have extensive experience in hard-news coverage as well as long-form, feature writing and blogging. More recently, since my return from Berkeley, my work has been largely focused on the production of multimedia features, combining narrative text with pictures and video footage that I shoot myself on the field.  My academic experience comprehends several disciplines, including biology, biotechnology, biomedicine, astronomy, space exploration, climate change, renewable energies, biodiversity and sustainable development. I am also an experienced hiker, mountaineer and scuba diver, which allows me to go further and deeper for environmental stories than most reporters. In 2011 I spent one year traveling alone around the world to produce a series of feature stories related to biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development.