UFRJ) with a master's in mechanical engineering with an area of concentration in thermosciences by Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Fernandes was a young apprentice of Pride International and worked as a field specialist at Halliburton. Nowadays, Fernandes works in the well engineering department at Petrobras. He is an SPE paper contest jury member, session chair, and technical reviewer from Offshore Technology Conference (OTC Houston and OTC Brazil), scientific reviewer, and technical program leader for American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) and Brazillian Petroleum and Biofuels Institute (IBP). Moreover, he is a scientific reviewer from the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering from Elsevier ®.