Tenured researcher at the National Cancer Institute (INCA), Leader of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory; Professor at INCA's Postgraduate Program in Oncology; FAPERJ scholarship holder, "Young Researcher of Our State" program and CNPq Productivity scholarship holder Level 2; Affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. 

Co-Founder of OneSkin and Spectra Startups. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Viçosa, a doctorate in Bioinformatics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (with a sandwich period at NIH - National Institute of Health, Bethesda, United States). She had professional experience in Bioinformatics during her postdoctoral studies at the Gene Center at Ludwig Maximilian München University, Germany and at the Center for Computational Biology of the Cancer and Genomic Sciences Institute - University of Birmingham, England, as a Visiting Researcher. She works in the area of Bioinformatics with an emphasis on the analysis and integration of different omics and the application of artificial intelligence techniques in cancer biology. https://sites.google.com/view/bioinformaticainca