I have a PhD in Computer Science from the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, since 1992.

In 1993, I joined the Centre for Informatics at the Federal University of Pernambuco, where I am currently an Associate Professor in Software engineering.

I was one of the co-founders of the Center of Advanced Studies and Systems at Recife (C.E.S.A.R.) in 1996, and of the Porto Digital Science Park, in Recife, Brazil, in 2001, of which has was President between 2001 and 2003.

I have been involved in teaching entrepreneurship, enterprise creation, innovation management, as well as project management and software engineering in the past 19 years. I have supervised 42 master and 2 doctoral students, and my scientific production comprises over 100 articles in journals and conference proceedings.

I am currently supervising 16 master and 6 doctoral students in various themes related to human aspects and team work in software engineering. 

Since July 2011, I am at the University of Toronto as a visiting researcher, working with Prof. Steve Easterbrook.