Gabriel is currently an assistant researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in Germany. He received his BSc. Degree in Computer Science from URI, Brazil in 2004 and his MSc. in Computer Science from PUCRS, Brazil in 2007. In 2008 he moved to Montpellier, France, where he got his PhD in Microelectronics from University of Montpellier 2.