I am a Chemistry Technician with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management and a Master’s degree in Geosciences from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. I earned my doctoral degree summa cum laude at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany. In 2025, I received the Bernd Rendel Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (https://www.dfg.de/en/funded-projects/prizewinners/rendel-prize/2025/pinho), the most prestigious national  award for young scientists at the PhD level in Germany. I received another national prize, the Helmholtz Doctoral Award 2026 as well as the regional AWI Doctoral Award 2026.

My primary research area is the paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctic ice dynamics during the Late Quaternary. My work seeks to disentangle the complex climate teleconnections among these regions in order to improve our understanding of past ocean circulation, climate variability, and cryosphere-ocean interactions.

My scientific expertise encompasses a broad range of paleoceanographic subdisciplines and analytical techniques. These include grain-size analysis, clay and bulk mineralogy of surface samples and sediment cores, XRF and CT scanning, and geochemical methods such as Mg/Ca and clumped-isotope paleothermometry, alongside oxygen and carbon isotope analyses for reconstructing water-mass signatures. I also specialize in establishing stratigraphic frameworks through radiocarbon dating and isotope stratigraphy.