He worked at Mackenzie University, Unicamp, and USP, and founded research into radio astronomy and solar physics in Brazil.

He founded research into radio astronomy, spatial geodesy, and solar physics in Brazil.

[1] He helped install the first radio telescope in Brazil in 1962,[2] at the Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium, but the antenna was subsequently destroyed by cows.

[3] He was a professor at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University[1] since 1998,[4] where he was coordinator for the Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics,[3] and a senior researcher at the Centre for Semiconductor Components (Portuguese: Centro de Componentes Semicondutores)[1] at UNICAMP, as well as an associate professor at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo.

[5] He grew up on a farm in Aix-en-Provence, south France,[2] and became interested in astronomy as a child.