- Professor at the Faculty of Law at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil;
- Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil;
- Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Chair in Community Law;
- PhD in Public Law from the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain (2005);
- Master’s in EU Institutions and Policies from the Universidad Camilo José Cela, Spain (2005), and Master’s in Public Law from the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain (2003);
- Legal Advisor to the Mercosur Secretariat (2008-2009);
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8709-0616.