Marcos holds a bachelor's degree (2001) and master's degree (2002) in Physics from the University of Brasília, a master's degree (2004) and doctorate (2008) in Physics from the University of Chicago. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania (2008-2010) and at the University of São Paulo (2010-2011). He is currently Professor at the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo, member of the Interinstitutional e-Astronomy Laboratory (LIneA) and member of the international collaborations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Vera Rubin's Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). He was a member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (2015-2019) and an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) (2015-2020). He has experience in Physics, with an emphasis on Astrophysics and Cosmology, working mainly on the following topics: Galaxy Clusters, Large-Scale Structure, Photometric Redshifts, Gravitational Lensing, Statistical Methods, Modified Gravity, N-body Simulations.
