I was born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1958, and received the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil in 1982 and 1985, respectively.
I received my doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT, Toulouse, France. I developped my doctoral project at the Laboratoire d'Electrotechnique et d'Electronique Industrielle - LEEI of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications - ENSEEIHT.
I was with the Escola Técnica Redentorista - ETER, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil from 1977 to 1982 and was a Project Engineer at Sul-América Philips, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, from 1982 to 1983.
From 1983 to March 2002 I was with the Electrical Engineering Department of UFPB where I became Full Professor in 1996. At UFPB I was Coordinator of Graduate Studies from 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002.
Since April 2002 I am with the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande where I am currently Full Professor. From 2002 to 2010 I was Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.
My current research interests are in the fields of electrical machines and drive systems, industrial automation, embedded systems, electronic instrumentation and control systems, system identification and biosensing.