Eduardo grew up in São Francisco do Piauí-PI, a tiny town in northeast Brazil (BR). He graduated from the civil engineering program at the State University of Piauí, Brazil, in 2011. He received his master's degree and PhD from the University of Brasilia, BR, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He has been a professor in the Department of Structures at the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil, since 2014. Under the supervision of Prof. Scott Walbridge, he is currently conducting research on fretting fatigue and computational modeling in finite elements during his postdoctoral studies at the University of Waterloo.