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Academic activities (post-graduation level): Master's degree in Military Sciences at the General Staff School of the Army (ECEME - 2002/2003). Published articles: - Contract of Contingency: a expansion model for the military logistics. PADECEME, 1° semester 2002. Rio de Janeiro: General Staff School of the Army (ECEME - 2002); - Brazilian participation in the peace of Chaco: a tribute to our first military observers. Revista A Defesa Nacional - Vol.797 3rd quarter of 2003. Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca do Exército, 2003; - The Military Logistics in the Russian Armed Forces: lessons learned. Anuário da Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, Year 5, Number 5. Resende: Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, 2015; and - National Strategy of the Russian Federation: Geopolitical Aspects. Coleção Meira Mattos. v. 14, n. 49. Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército, 2020. The origins of Brazilian Geopolitical Thought: the contribution of José Bonifácio, Varnhagen and Calógeras. Análise Estratégica, v. 16, n. 2. Brasília: CEEEx, 2020. Relevant professional experience: Brazilian Army officer (Colonel); Logistic Officer of the United Nations Verification Mission in Angola; Logistic Officer of the United Nations Observation Mission in Angola (Angola - 1997); Logistic Officer of the Brazilian Infantry Battalion - United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Haiti, 2008); Brazilian Defence, Navy, Army and Airforce Attaché to the Russian Federation (2013 to 2015); Member of the Technical Review Board of the Program "United Nations Safer Guard" at the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs - UNODA; Director of the Department of Political-Social Relations at the Secretary of the Government of the Federal Republic of Brazil (2019-2020). Other academic activities, as guest speaker: "Russian Federation and Brazil Relations", organized by the Foreign Relations Federal Institute of Moscow. (Russia: MGIMO, 2015); "The Current Situation of Russia Facing Economic and Geopolitical Challenges, organized by the Instituto Pandiá Calógeras (Brazil: Ministry of Defense, 2015); - "Under the sceptre of the Czar: the role of Russia in the Global Geopolitics", organized by the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense of the Federal Senate (Brazil: Federal Senate, 2017); "Russian Federation National Strategy: political, economical and military aspects". (Brazil: UNIP, 2019).