Biological Sciences graduate from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a master’s and PhD in Neuroscience from the same institution. She was a Pew Latin American Fellow during her postdoctoral training in molecular neuropharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is currently an associate professor at UFRJ, a collaborating researcher at Instituto D’Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, and Deputy Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Science for Education and editor of the journal Yvirá.
