Full Professor at the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences (Wageningen University, Holland, 2005), a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering/Environmental Sanitation (UFC, Brazil, 2001), Specialization in Ecological Sanitation (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden, 2008) and a Degree in Civil Engineering with Magna Distinction cum Laude (UFC, Brazil, 1998). He is CNPq Level 1B Researcher, with about 135 publications in journals, 261 publications in conference proceedings, 6 books, 32 chapters and 2 patents. Such production currently results in about 5120 citations, H-factor 31 and i10-factor 73 in Google Scholar, H-factor 27 in ResearchGate and H-factor 22 in Scopus. It has some national awards such as the ANA Award, Finep, ABES/Cetrel, teaching mentor, honored professor of civil and environmental engineering majors, among others. He has already supervised around 150 students, of which 31 are Master’s students and 18 are Doctoral students. Participates in/coordinates national and international research projects such as the National Decentralized Sewage Treatment Network (RENTED), the FINEP/CNPq project with 13 ICTs, where he was general coordinator, and is currently UFC coordinator with the Covid Sewers Network and the National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT) Sustainable Sewage Treatment Plants, led by UFMG, where he is also vice-general coordinator. Has been acting as Editor-in-Chief of the Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Journal (Revista ESA) of Brazilian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (ABES), Editor-in-Chief of the Technical Collection in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (CTESA) of ABES, Associate Editor, member of the editorial board or ad hoc of relevant periodicals from Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, or from national and international development agencies. He participated in important judging commissions such as Triennial Evaluation (2010-2012) and Quadrennial (2013-2016) of Capes, Judging Commission of the Capes Thesis Award (2013) in the area of Engineering I, CT-Hidro of Finep, among others. He was responsible for writing the project to create the UFC Environmental Engineering major (2008), and was coordinator in the period 2009-2011. For about 4 years (2012-2016) he was a tutor at the Junior Company for the Chemical and Environmental Engineering majors (Ciclo Jr) and was a member of the NDE for the Civil and Environmental Engineering majors. He is also coordinator of UFC’s Pibic in the area of Engineering I and Deputy Secretary in the Thematic Chamber of Wastewater Treatment (CTTE) of ABES. He has been working mainly in the areas of domestic and industrial wastewater treatment, bioenergy, environmental biotechnology, reuse, resource recovery, solid waste, environmental studies, basic sanitation management and wastewater-based epidemiology, and has also been a consultant for public and private companies for almost 25 years.
