Ph.D in Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology and  and BSc. degree in Medical Physics, both by the University of São Paulo. Visiting Student at Harvard University (2013-14) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016-17). Honorable Mention in the Best Thesis Prize by the Brazilian Society of Physics (SBF) and by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes). Member of the Medical Physics Area Commission of the Brazilian Society of Physics. Currently, is Professor at the Physics Department - FFCLRP- University of Sao Paulo, investigating the interactions of radiation with nanomaterials, to understand and optimize the delivery and detection of radiation dose.

Ph.D and BS.c  in Physics by the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of São Carlos (IFQSC) at the University of São Paulo (USP). He was one of the creators of the Postgraduate program in Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology and of the undergraduate program in Medical Physics at FFCLRP-USP. He completed an internship Postdoctoral fellowship (1986-1988) at the Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with the support of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation,  maintaining a long-standing collaboration with the Biomagnetism Laboratory of the UW-Madison Medical Physics Department, where he was appointed as a Visiting Professor until 2018. His research interests is in the area of medical physics, especially with works in biomagnetism, ESR for dosimetry and dating, magnetic resonance (MRI) for dosimetry, spectroscopy (MRS), and functional magnetic resonance imaging FMRI), among other applications. He was one of the coordinators of the CINAPCE Project, FAPESP, for the area of Neurosciences. He was Deputy Director and Director of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto-USP FFCLRP, member of the university council of USP, member of the Council of the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology (MAE-USP), department head, committee chair, Vice president of the Editorial Board of Revista USP, president of the Medical Physics Area Commission of the Brazilian Society of Physics and representative of the titular professors in the University Council and member of CNPq Advisory Committee. Participated in several evaluation committees of CNPq, FAPESP, CAPES and the State Board of Education. Participated and organized several national and international scientific events. Baffa was a Fellow of the Fulbright Program (2015).