Innovator designer in NXT Apparel. NIKE.inc USA.

Designer, technological artist and inventor, my work is based on the intersection between art, technology and biology, being my areas of expertise: biomaterials, softrobotics and Fashion tech design. I have been an instructor in digital manufacturing and textile technology, teaching the official programs by Fab Foundation: Fabricademy, Fab academy and in 2018 the MIT program, How to make "almost" anything, as TA of Professor Neil Gershenfeld.

As an active member of the fab labs network, I am a consultant for social innovation projects in Latin America, leading the Fab Craft (Digital Crafts) project for the social development of the artisanal sector through design and innovation.

My backgorund is on Cultural project manager in urban art festivals, and an Inmaterial Heritage researcher, like a photographer, and video and sound recorder of cultural traditions and rituals in different countries such as Portugal (Azores Islands), Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, Peru, Costa Rica and Panama.