I'm a 26 years old Brazilian guy.
As most part of Brazilians, I'm from an immigrant family: 1/4 Libanese, 5/8 Italian and 1/8 Portuguese. My dad is a salesman, and my mom is a dentist. My dad comes from an industrial family and my mom from the field.
I borned in a midsize city in the countryside of São Paulo state, called Marília. I lived there with my parents until 17, and then I move to São Carlos (270km far from home) to do my studies. I kept in São Carlos until last year, when I move to São Paulo to work. During the college I did an internship to Madrid, where I lived for 6 months. And during the master program I did my field research in a farm in USA, in the middle of nowhere, Maysville/MO (70 miles far from Kansas City).
First of all, I love to cook, mainly when I cook for other people. I hope to cook more this year. My last apartment had a small kitchen, without a cooktop or oven. So past year has no so good for cooking. I also like to hangout with some friends to play Samba, while drinking some beers in a "boteco" nearby (how we call smalls and simple bars). We try to do it once a week. During some weekends, I try to go to the beach and practicing surfing. I love some other aquatics sports, like water polo and swiming, but the ocean has something special. Other thing that I like to do , but I don't do so often is to be in contact with the soil, gardening. My final project is an intent to motivate me do more of cooking and gardening, generating organic waste and using it to add more nutrients to the soil.
I'm working as professor at Insper. On this semester, I'm starting to teach in a course called Design Nature, for a mixed class of freshmen from mechanical, mechatronics and computing engineering. In this course we cover an introduction on sketching, CAD, digital fabrication, biomimetics and design process. As final project, the students have to design and build a toy for kindergarten kids, and test it with their potential customers. I'm also starting a PhD in Industrial Engineering at University of São Paulo, in a lab called Inovalab@Poli. My PhD research is in the field of Engineering Education, but it is still an open question.
Master of science at University of São Paulo (USP) on the area of design management. Part of the Integrated Engineering and Integration Engineering research group (EI2) at the Nucleus of Advanced Manufacture (NUMA), where research on process modeling and collaborative design, focused on open source design and design thinking. Bachelor's (2012) in Industrial Engineering at Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), with certificate of Special Studies in Strategy and Organization. While in college, I had participated in the International Mobility Program Formula Santander (2011), taking courses at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (ETSII), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). As MSc student I had also volunteered at Open Source Ecology, in the first internship program called Summer of Extreme Design and Build. I spent there 3.5 months. During this program we built two micro houses (or at least about 60% percent of each), all the bricks for the micro houses, the machines that made the bricks (CEB Press) and the power units (Power Cube that were used in the CEB Press and also in the tractor (LifeTrac), that was built before my stay at OSE. We also tried to build a electric tricycle (Velocar), but we didn't have enouth time to finish the prototype. We got just few parts of the frame, milled in aluminum, and the wheels, made in carbon fiber. It was the first time immersed in this kind of hands on experience. An amazing time, mainly by the people I have met there.
In 2015, after this experience at OSE, I built with some friends a Mendel90 3D printer. As we didn't have enouth projects to keep the machine running full time, we decide to register on 3D Hubs, a kind off Airbnb for 3D printers. At that time in Brasil, 3D printing technology was not so popular yet, and 3D Hubs, even less. We got in touch with them and found in São Carlos the first 3D Hubs Brazilian "city hall", and we've put together some 3d printing enthusiasts. We had also organized some events to spread this technology in the university environment. In this mean time we found a design consultancy, called beBeta, foucused on design thinking and 3D printing.