| 2024 | group leader at Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development |
| 2022 | senior scientist at Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy |
| 2019-2021 | visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) |
| 2009 | senior scientist at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
| 2007 | postdoc at City College of New York |
| 2006 | Doktor rerum naturalium (Ph.D. in physics) |
| 2002 | research stay at
Bar-Ilan
University in Ramat-Gan near Tel Aviv (four months) |
| 2002 | diploma (physics) |
| 1999-2000 | exchange at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon |
| 1998 | intermediate diploma |
| 1996 | enrollment to the study of physics at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| 1981-1995 | schools: Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro in São Paulo (certificate: german Abitur), Hans-Purrmann-Gymnasium in Speyer, elementary school in Schwegenheim near Speyer, International School of Curitiba. |
| 1975 | born in Curitiba, Brazil |