Principal Investigator (PI) and executive coordinator of CITER - Research Centre for Theology and Religion Studies at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), in Lisbon. He received the "Religions Investigator Award 2022" promoted by the Journal Religions (Q1) and MDPI, publisher based in Basel, Switzerland. Professor of Theology and Literature in the Graduate Program of Theology and Professor of Hermeneutics of Religious Texts in the Integrated Master of Religious Sciences, both in the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.  Education: Livre Docente (Habilitation) in Ethics and Theological Language by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC SP). Post-doctorate in Theology by the Pontificia Università Gregoriana di Roma (PUG), with research on Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola between Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Doctor in Theology by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio). Master in Theology by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC SP). Professional history: Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Theology at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC PR), from the years 2017-2019. Professor in the Graduate Program in Human Rights and Public Policy at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC PR), 2017-2019. Productivity Scholar at the Araucária Foundation for Scientific and Technological Support and Development of Paraná (2018-2020). Professor in the Graduate Program in Theology and Coordinator of the Bachelor Course in Theology at the Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC SP), from 2014-2016. Collaborating professor in the Graduate Program in Theology (2010-2011) and in the Bachelor Course in Theology of the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio), from 2013-2014. Performance as professor and visiting researcher: Literary Studies Program of the University of Aveiro (Portugal); Faculté de théologie et sciences religieuses - Université Laval (Canada); Doctorate in Humanities of the Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM); History and Literary Theory Program of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); Facultad de Ciências Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Leader of the Research Group Theopatodicea: Spirituality, Culture and Praxis (CNPq, 2016-2021). Editor of Teoliterária - Revista Brasileira de Literaturas e Teologias (2011-2021). Associations Member: Member of the Board of SOTER - Brazilian Society of Theology and Religion Sciences (2016-2018), where she coordinated the Working Group on Religion, Theology and Literature (2009-2019).  President of ALALITE - Latin American Association of Literature and Theology (Brazil Section, 2018-2021). Vice-president of ALALITE - Latin American Association of Literature and Theology (International Section, 2016-2018). Collaborates in Research Centers: Founding member of the Center for Literary Studies, Religious Phenomenon and Arts (CELTA - UNICAMP); Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Aveiro (CLLC UA); Center for Medieval Studies East and West of the University of São Paulo (CEMOrOC USP); Brazilian Society of Logotherapy (SOBRAL) Areas of Interest: Theology and Literature, Theological Anthropology, Meaning of Life, Theological Ethics, Mysticism and Praxis, Otherness, Theology of Culture, Public Theology, Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Theological Epistemology and Hermeneutics.