[1986 – 2005] Early Life and Personal Background

São Miguel Arcanjo Region

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It is here that everything started for me. I’ve born and grown up in this small city, located within São Paulo state. My parents had a little farm where I used to helped them with works on grape vineyard, tangerine plantation, spice plantation, and other types of agronomic activities. This part of my life has nothing to do with the subjects that I work nowadays, but I like to tell this history as I think that much of my core personal values comes from these days such as resilience, understanding of the life, and ability to stay cool in most situations. Image 1A picture of me, in my parent’s farm.

Parallel Activities

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Over there, in parallel to my works and studies, some other activities that I’ve did in this early phase of my life was: financial management of the São Miguel Arcanjo’s japanese group, math and astronomic tournaments (I’ve won some!), athletics championships (won some too!), music (I had a rock’n roll band!), and works with technology (PC disassembling and maintenance). Image 2A picture of our group of athleticsImage 3A newspaper with a notice of our band.

Approvals in Exams

In 2005 I’ve succeeded to pass in the university entrance exams. These were really hard times for me, with much study and efforts, but also with really nice results. I’ve passed in all the exams that I’ve tried, in Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (Unesp), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), and Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Ufscar):

 Time to move!