Anthropologist and audiovisual filmmaker. He works in the areas of anthropology of technology, anthropology of life, environmental anthropology, and social studies of science and technology. He is the coordinator of CHAMA (Collective of Anthropology, Environment and Biotechnodiversity), a group in which he conducts and supervises research on domestication regimes of animals, plants, microorganisms, and ecological phenomena, with special attention to fire management, planetary habitability, biocultural heritage, and environmental conservation and restoration policies. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the project “RESPIRO: Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado,” developed within the scope of the FAPESP/BIOTA Young Researcher Program (process 2025/01710-9). The project investigates pyrodiversity, that is, the diversity of fire regimes, as an emergent property of traditional quilombola agro-extractive systems in the Cerrado, aiming to overcome the fracture between ecological restoration and historical reparation in contexts of overlap between Conservation Units and traditional territorialities.
Articles and book chapters: Preservationism in the Plantationocene: protection as exploitation in Brazil's Cerrado, VIBRANT (FLORIANÓPOLIS), v. 23, 2026. Sociotechnical approach to protected areas and traditional communities, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, v. 39 | 2025. Traditional Fire Uses by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in South America, Fire in the South American Ecosystems: Springer Nature | 2025 Building a World-ship: A decolonial approach to just energy transitions, Human Geography | 2025. Preservation Plantations, Closed Time: Ecological Collapse and Capitalism. 1st edition.São Paulo: Boitempo | 2025 Artistic Practices in the Anthropocene, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, vol. 49 | 2024 The Three Smokes of the Pyrocene, Where There's Smoke: Art and Climate Emergency. 1st ed. São Paulo: Museu Paulista, FAAMP | 2024 Dialogues Between Black Worlds: From Environmental Racism to Decolonial Ecology, Socio-environmental Dialogues, v. 6 | 2023 Society Against the Plantation: An Ecological Re-semanticization of Quilombos. In: Malcom Ferdinand. (Org.). A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World. 1st ed. São Paulo: UBU, 2022 Free from Burning: Autonomy and Heteronomy Facing Fire in the Brazilian Savanna, Journal of Anthropologists, 164-165 | 67-87, 2021 Fire Normativities: Environmental Conservation and Quilombola Forms of Life in the Brazilian Savanna. Vibrant, v. 16, p. 1-22, 2019 Making fire work: manipulations and technical agencies in the conservation of Jalapão (TO). Equatorial Journal. v. 6, p. 16-49, 2019 Cultivation and domestication, act and potency: frontiers of plants and plant metaphysics. Eikasía Journal of Philosophy, v. 78, p. 227-249, 2017 How does fire become a tool? notes on management and manipulation in the Cerrado (Jalapão-TO). New Debates - Forum of Debates in Anthropology, v. 2, p. 59-66, 2016. Audiovisual: As if it were one - ethnographic film. 21 min. Brazil. 2026. Golden harvest: the uprooting of grass in the Gerais of Jalapão (TO). Anthropological Yearbook, pp. 319-327, 2019. Another Fire - ethnographic film. 21 min. Brazil. 2017. Media Comments: A sanctuary on the moon for knowledge of the Earth. Breakfast Podcast - Folha de São Paulo. February 16, 2026 Archiving life in the age of collapse: Inside the project that will preserve Earth's memories on the Moon. Piauí Magazine, January 5, 2026. What do the Quilombola communities of the Cerrado teach us about wildfires?. Nexo Public Policy Portal. November 23, 2021 Fuel Maps: Digitizing Grass and Sensing Fire in Brazil. Engagement - the Anthropology and Environment Society, December 21. 2021. Research on fire management among peoples in conservation areas of Jalapão stands out in Anthropology, UnB Ciência, March 24, 2021. Reclaiming quilombismo in the end of the conciliations (Hot Spots Forum). Cultural Anthropology, v. 28, p. 1-3, 2020.