Benjamim is a graduating agronomy engineering student at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). First, he worked in an entomology lab. After that, he moved to the Quantitative Genetics and Statistical Learning Lab (QGSL) and worked as a genetics course monitor at UFV. He also did an internship at ETH Zurich in the Molecular Plant Breeding group (MPB). Currently, he is developing a scientific initiation project on genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI).