Marcelo is currently Chief Mineral Sciences Officer at Advanced Potash Technologies and he has a visiting Scientist position within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the MIT. He earned his PhD in geochemistry and petrology from the University of Pará. In 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher (Experimental Petrology and Mineralogy) in the Université d’Orléans (France) and a BA in Geology from the University of Pará.