Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. I graduated in Electrical Engineering in the UDELAR in 1991 and received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 1995 and 2002. In 2004, I joined the DEE-UFMG as an adjunct professor. During 2019, I was postdoctoral researcher at Institut für Controlling und Unternehmensrechnung - Technische Universität Braunschweig-ICU-TUB, Germany, working on the regulation of electricity transmission companies and models to measure operational cost efficiency.