Distinctions                                                                      

• In September 2025, I was awarded the prestigious CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) funding from the \textit{Programa Conhecimento Brasil - Atração e Fixação de Talentos} which allowed me to fund my research back in Brazil. 

• Recipient of fully-funded scholarship to spend a whole year as a visiting Ph.D. student in France (2019-2020). 

• Recipient of the EUCA Student Travel Support to attend the 18th ECC in Naples, Italy, 2019.

• Recipient of fully-funded scholarship of the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program to spend a whole year as a visiting undergraduate student in the University of Colorado Denver, CO, USA (2014-2015).