M.Sc. in 2008 with Sonia Zanini Cechin; Ph.D. in 2012 with Albertina Lima and Izeni Farias
For his Ph.D. Igor studied mechanisms of diversification in a group of dendrobatid (poison dart) frogs. Igor is currently a professor of biology at UFAM where is continuing to study dendrobatid frogs and expand to studies of community ecology of squamates and anurans in general.