B.S.: Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2007)
Msc.: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2010)
Ph. D. student: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Area of general interest:Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of teleost fishes, both recent and fossil. Grupo principal de interesse/Main group of interest: Cichlidae.
Papers published in scientific journals
MATTOS,J.L.O.; LIMA, M. Q.. Microcambeva draco, a new species from northeastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, v. 21, p. 233-238, 2010.
OTTONI, F. ; MATTOS,J.L.O. ; SCHINDLER, I. . Re-description of Laetacara curviceps (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae). Vertebrate Zoology, v. 59, p. 123-129, 2009.
MATTOS,J.L.O. ; COSTA, W. J. E. M. ; GAMA, C. S. . A new miniature species of Ammoglanis (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Brazilian Amazon. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, v. 19, p. 161-166, 2008.