Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO, Brazil). PhD in Software Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil). He was Academic Visitor at University College London (UCL, UK) and Postdoc Researcher at COPPE/UFRJ. Head of the Complex Systems Engineering Laboratory (Lab ESC), leading a team of 20 students with more than 30 partners over the world. His research interests are Complex Systems Engineering (especially software ecosystems and systems-of-systems) and Software Engineering Education. He is member of Education Evaluating Commission at the Brazilian Ministry of Education. He is also Coordinator of the Special Commission of Information Systems of the Brazilian Computer Society (CESI/SBC) and Editor-in-Chief of iSys: Brazilian Journal of Information Systems. He worked in several projects related to process improvement and reuse management in large companies at Coppetec Foundation (2008-2017). He was also lecturer at Brazilian Open University, COPPE/UFRJ, UNIRIO, Infnet Institute, and Santa Úrsula University (2007-2017).