Education:
Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1988
M.S. Nuclear Engineering, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1983
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1980

• Materials Institute Award for Best M.Sc. Thesis at Penn State, 2002-2003 O.N. Pierron, Influence of Hydride Blisters on Failure of Zircaloy-4 Sheet (co-advised with D. Koss)
• Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Advising Award, 2001
• Xerox Award for best M.Sc. Thesis in Materials at Penn State, 1998-1999, D.W. Bates for thesis "Influence of Stress State and Hydrogen on Deformation and Failure of Zircaloy 4" (co-advised by Don Koss)
• Xerox Award for best M.Sc. Thesis in Materials at Penn State, 1997-1998, T.M. Link for thesis "Failure of Zircaloy Cladding Under Severe Loading Conditions" (co-advised by Don Koss)
• Department Head's Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, 1998
• Honorable Mention, for poster "Calculation of Defect Energetics in Zr2Ni and ZrNi Intermetallic compounds using Molecular Dynamics", by C.S. Moura at Penn State Graduate Research Exhibition, March 1999
• John Schemel Best Paper Award, 10th ASTM International Symposium on Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry, Baltimore, 1993, for paper titled, "Oxidation of Intermetallic Precipitates in Zircaloy-4: Impact of Irradiation"
• Visiting Professorship, at the Materials Department of the Institute for Nuclear and Energy Research, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 1994
• Visiting Professorship at Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., Chalk River Laboratories, Canada, 1993 and 1994
• Named IAEA specialist in Experts Program, Vienna, Austria, 1995