is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with affiliations in the Graduate Programs in Systems Engineering and Computer Science Department, in the Graduate Program in the History of Sciences, Techniques, and Epistemologies, and in the undergraduate Department of Computer and Information Engineering and Information of the Polytechnic School. He is the author of “Yes, We Have Pasteur: Manguinhos, Oswaldo Cruz and the History of Science in Brazil” (2007). He has held visiting positions at Stanford University (2001–2002), the Deutsches Museum (2009–2010), and the Universität Konstanz (2009–2010) and is an Alexander von Humbolt Foundation Fellow.