Principal Researcher and executive coordinator of the Center for Research in Theology and Religious Studies (CITER) of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) in Lisbon through the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT, 2019-25). Professor of Theology and Literature in the Doctoral Program in Theology and Hermeneutics of Religious Texts in the Integrated Master's Course in Religious Studies at UCP. Professor in the PPGT and the Program of Postgraduate Studies in Human Rights and Public Policies (PPGDH).
Visiting Professor in the Program of Literary Studies at the University of Aveiro (UA) and in the Program of History and Literary Theory of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Habilitation in Ethics and Theological Language by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC SP).
Postdoctoral studies in Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Doctor in Theology by PUC Rio. Master’s in theology by PUC SP. Professional history: Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Theology at PUCPR from 2017-19. Research productivity scholarship by the Araucária Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development of Paraná (2018-20). Member of the Postgraduate Program in Theology and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies in Theology at PUC SP (2014-16). Collaborating Professor in Undergraduate Studies in Theology (2010-11) and the Program of Postgraduate Studies at PUC Rio (2013-14). Visiting Professor and researcher: Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Laval University (Quebec, Canada); Doctorate in Humanities of the Catholic University of Moçambique (UCM); Faculty of Social Sciences at the National University Arturo Jauretche (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Leader of the Theopatodicy Research Group: Spirituality, Culture, and Praxis (CNPq, 2016-21). Editor of Teoliterária - Brazilian Journal of Literatures and Theologies (2011-20). Member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Society of Theology and Religious Sciences (SOTER, 2016-18), where he coordinated the Working Group on Religion, Theology and Literature (2009-19). Vice-president of the Latin American Association of Literature and Theology (ALALITE, 2016-18) and president of its Brazilian section (2018-21). Founding member of the Center for Literary and Religious Phenomena and Arts Studies at the State University of Campinas (CELTA - UNICAMP); Center of Languages, Literature and Cultures of the University of Aveiro (CLLC UA); Researcher at the Oriental and Western Medieval Studies Center, CEMOrOC, of the Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo (USP); Brazilian Society for Logotherapy (SOBRAL). Research areas: Theology and Literature, Theological Anthropology, the Meaning of Life, Theological Ethics, Mysticism and Praxis, Alterity, Theology of Culture, Public Theology, Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Epistemology and Theological Hermeneutics.

PhD in Systematic Theology - Mysticism and Corporeality: Experience, Ethics and Praxis in Simone Weil from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2015). CAPES scholarship for a sandwich doctorate at the Université Catholiqué de Lyon - France. She holds a master's degree in Theology from the Jesuit College of Philosophy and Theology, which is an ethical-theological reading of sexuality, according to Xavier Lacroix (2009). She holds a degree in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (2005), a degree in Fine Arts from the College of Arts of Paraná (1996), and a technical degree in Industrial Design from the Federal Center for Technological Education of Paraná (1990). She is a professor in the Postgraduate Program in Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. She teaches Introduction to Theology, Theological Anthropology, Theology of Spirituality, Mariology, and Sacraments of Initiation in the undergraduate program. She has also taught Christology, Eschatology, and Theology and Society. She is a member of the Structuring Teaching Nucleus of the Theology degree course. She attends Theopathodicy: Spirituality, Culture, and Praxis (PUCPR) and co-coordinates the research group on the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises (FAJE). Member of the Ecoculture and Ecofeminism Research Group linked to the Center for Research in Theology and Studies of Religion CITER - Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon. Member of the Brazilian Society of Theology and Religious Sciences (SOTER) board as vice president. Associate member of the Marial Academy. Founding member of the Association of Mariology Professors of Brazil. Areas of interest: Theological Anthropology, Spirituality, Ignatian Spirituality, Simone Weil, Mysticism-Ethics-Praxis, Ecofeminist Theology, Interfaces between Theology and Art. She contributes as a theological advisor to the Magis VI Latin American course. She is an executive editor of the journal Cadernos Teológicos PUCPR and is on the editorial board of the Revista de Espiritualidade Inaciana de Itaici.

PhD in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro/PUC-Rio. Master in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro/PUC-Rio. BA in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná/PUCPR. Professor-researcher in the Postgraduate Program in Theology and the Theology Course at PUCPR, where he develops research projects emphasizing Theology, Ethics, and Society. He always tries to discern from the point of view of the lay Christians and their role in the Church and society. He has been a theological and pastoral advisor for the CNBB (National Conference of Bishops of Brazil - Laity Commission, 2012-2023) and the CNLB (National Council for the Laity of Brazil). Member of the Council of the Knowledge Management Center of CELAM (Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council) for 2023-2027. Visiting professor at the Portuguese Catholic University for postgraduate courses (2019). Visiting professor at CEBITEPAL/CELAM (2018-2020) and the Jesuit Institute at Boston College/USA (2022). He was the president of SOTER (Society of Theology and Sciences of Religion, 2016-2022). Member of CTEWC (Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church). Member of the Permanent Council and the International and Methodologies Committee of the WFTL (World Forum for Theology and Liberation). Member of Eatwot/Asett (Association of Third World Theologians). In 2024, he was nominated as a member of the Editorial Board of Concilium Journal and the Caritas Theological Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He develops projects with Amerindia (a network of Latin American theologians). Topics of interest: Hope/Performativity; Responsibility/Collectivity; Theological Ethics; Social Issues/Human Rights; Liberation Theology; Laity/Laicity; Pope Francis; Politics; Migration/Refugees; Sexual Abuse and Ethical-Pastoral Implications; Decoloniality. He is a speaker and lecturer at various institutions.

Doctorate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (2000); Master’s in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (1998); Master's in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of Santa Cruz (1999); degree in Theology from the Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology (1993); degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (1987). Full Professor at the Theological Institute of Santa Catarina-ITESC and the Catholic Faculty of Santa Catarina-FACASC. Coordinator of the ITESC Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue Group. Coordinator of the Theological Commission of the National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil. Research areas: Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue, Religious Pluralism, Spiritualities, and New Religious Movements.

Master's in Religious Sciences from the Methodist University of São Paulo - UMESP; PhD in Sacred Scriptures from the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany; Post-doctoral internship in the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Israel; Coordinator of the research group "Archaeology of the Ancient Near East"; Editor of the journal RIBLA; Professor at the Post Graduate Program in Theology at PUCPR; Missionary of the Congregation of the Divine Word.

Post-doctorate in Ancient History from UNICAMP and in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. Doctorate in Religious Sciences from the Methodist University of São Paulo. Master’s in Theology from the Higher Evangelical Institute of Theological Studies (ISEDET), degree in Theology from the Theological Seminary of Londrina. Experience in Old Testament Exegesis. Research areas: Spirituality and Politics in Jeremiah, Ezra and Nehemiah, Theology and Consumer Society, Archeology of War and Army in the Ancient Near East.

Ph.D. in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), with a dissertation in Trinitarian theology. Master’s in Theology from the Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology (Belo Horizonte), with a thesis in soteriology. Taught ecclesiology, ecumenical theology, and theology of religions at Dehonian College (Taubaté, SP) and systematics, ethics, and religious topics at the Graduate Program in Theology Studies from PUC-SP. Member of the International Commission for Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue (Santa Sé): Participates in annual International Colloquiums and collaborates on the production of "Charisms in the Church: Theological Significance and Pastoral Reach" (final report, 2015). Over the last eight years, he has worked on the Religion & Ecology interface and developed studies on Islam. Research areas: Systematic Theology from a Pentecostal Perspective, Subjects of Islamic Thought and Christianity, Salvation and Religions, Religion/Ecology Interface.

Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of São Paulo; Master’s in Fundamental Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University; Master’s in Psychology from the University of São Paulo; Specialization in Psychopedagogy and the Teaching-Learning Process from the Claretian University Center in Batatais. Doctorate in Pontifical Fundamental Theology from the Lateran University. Research areas: Theological Method, Baroque Scholasticism, Religious Phenomenology, and Figures of Contemporary Thought.

Full Professor at PUCPR; postdoctoral studies in Bioethics at the Chair of Bioethics at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, with a CAPES/Carolina Foundation scholarship. He holds a Ph.D. in Theology from EST/IEPG in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. His doctoral dissertation in bioethics resulted from research - with the support of Capes - at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He holds a Master's in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Paraná at Curitiba. He is a specialist in Bioethics and has a degree in Philosophy. Today, he is a professor both in the Postgraduate Program in Theology and in Bioethics at PUCPR (where he is also head of the Program), leader of the Theology and Bioethics Research Group, member of the Brazilian Society for Bioethics, Paraná section, and member of the Bioethics Committee of the Pequeno Príncipe Hospital—visiting Professor at the Higher Institute of Philosophy and Theology D. Jaime G. Goulart, Dili, East Timor. Research in bioethics and family, with emphasis on family planning and sexuality.

Ph.D. and Master’s in Theology from the School of Theology; degree in Pedagogy from the Regional University of Northwestern Rio Grande do Sul State; degree in Psychology from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos. She has experience in theological teaching, emphasizing the interface between Psychology and Theology. Main Research areas: Contemporary Subjectivity, Subjectivity Processes, Religious Psychology, Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Sacrifice.

Of Swiss origin and naturalized Brazilian, he holds a degree (1993) and a Doctorate in Theology (2001), both from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and a Habilitation in Systematic Theology from the University of Bern, Switzerland (2010). Before moving to Curitiba to become a professor at PUCPR, where he serves both the PPGT and the Postgraduate Program in Human Rights and Public Policies (PPGDH) and is, today, head of the Postgraduate Program in Theology, he was Professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Inter-religious Dialogue at Faculdades EST (formerly Escola Superior de Teologia) in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he also served as vice-rector for Postgraduate Studies and Research and founding director of the Ethics Institute (2003-19). Since 2013, he has been a professor in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the Faculty of Theology of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He holds a research productivity scholarship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and held research fellowships at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton (2007); the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the University of Göttingen (2011) and with the Humboldt Foundation/CAPES at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich (three periods between 2013 and 2016). Visiting Professorships at the Biblical University of Costa Rica (2014 – Mackay Lectures), the University of Halle-Wittenberg (two periods between 2015 and 2016), and the Catholic Private University of Linz (2021). He is the moderator of the Commission on Education and Ecumenical Formation of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and a member of the board of directors of the Globethics.net Foundation, where he presides over the Academic Committee. He is also the chairman of the Global Network of Public Theology (GNPT). His research areas are Public Theology, Political Ethics, Bioethics, Ecumenical and Interreligious Hermeneutics, Religious Mobility, Pluralism, Contextual and Ecumenical Theology, and Doctrine of the Trinity.

Ph.D. in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro focused on Biblical Theology. Master’s in Biblical Sciences from the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome. Degree in Philosophy from the University of Passo Fundo and Theology from the Center for Higher Studies of the Society of Jesus. Main research areas: Exegesis of the Old and New Testament, Biblical Theology, Bible and Pastoral, Bible, Human Relations, Conflicts in Relationships between People and Leaders, and Spirituality.

Ph.D. in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Master and Bachelor of Theology from the Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology. Degree in Philosophy and specialization in Bioethics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. Research areas: Bioethics and Pastoral Care, Moral Theology, and Bio Technoscience/Biotechnology.